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PAPERS: Doing and Undoing Post Anthropocentric Design, session 1 Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Zoom Link Session Chair: Tau Ulv Lenskjold, University of Southern Denmark Session Chair: Laura Forlano, Northeastern University | |
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Mechanical Jewellery as Epimethean Practice: Staying with the Trouble of Human–Machine Entanglement 1: School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University,Zhejiang,China This paper explores how mechanical jewellery can serve as an Epimethean design practice that rethinks human–machine relationships through care, hesitation, and affective engagement. Drawing from post-anthropocentric design discourse and new materialist theory, the research investigates how low-tech, playful, and speculative prototypes can undo conventional narratives of technological progress. Through a practice-based workshop conducted at Fringe Arts Bath 2025, the study examines how wearable artefacts exhibiting unpredictable motion provoke emotional response and relational awareness in participants. The findings suggest that mechanical jewellery can operate as a modest yet generative medium for staying with the trouble of human–machine entanglement, foregrounding absurd materiality, multispecies sympoiesis, and embodied reflection as critical modes of post-anthropocentric design. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2172
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