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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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Tagus estuary color swatch – Materials as affective mediators in more-than-human temporalities 1: ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; 2: ITI/LARSyS, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal This paper reimagines material catalogues not as static inventories but as archives of deep-time and affect: tools for sensing, caring for, and reconfiguring our relationships with the more-than-human world. It presents Tagus estuary colour swatch, a Research-through-Design exploration in which bio-pigments derived from local plant, mineral, algal, and waste streams form a colour palette embodying the estuary’s ecological rhythms. The project reframes materials beyond inert resources but rather as affective mediators of and for more-than-human temporalities – by embodying and expressing temporal processes and by enabling designers and audiences to engage with them. Positioned against the extractivist legacy of traditional catalogues, the research is framed within a wider shift in design that proposes alternative bioregional approaches valuing provenance, affective relations, and care. By revealing materials’ more-than-human narratives, the research demonstrates how design tools can cultivate awareness, empathy, and connection across humans, landscapes, and the temporalities they share. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2121
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