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PAPERS: Temporalities of More-than-Human Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Larissa Pschetz, The University of Edinburgh Session Chair: Gizem Oktay, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
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Putting an ear to the ground: Attending to Frictions in Human-machine-soil Temporalities Dept. of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark In this paper we present "Plant-disco", an interactive physical design object that seeks to make activities in soil (e.g. bugs and plant growth) sensible to humans. With this, we discuss how more-than-human temporalities come to surface (such as plant, soil, microorganisms and machine) and how this creates friction in our human perception of time and interaction. The central aspect of the paper is to discuss how the design, as a result of trying to extend human appreciation of nature into soil, also intervenes in human temporalities by engaging with the seemingly slow pace of nature at a time where most digital technologies primarily seek to stimulate fast-paced sensing. Grounded in more-than-human concerns in design, we discuss some of our design choices as well as the theoretical underpinnings of different temporalities and use this to explore how the design seeks to mediate this tension between the slow and the fast-paced. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2090
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