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PAPERS: More than Human Climate Futures: Affect and Relational Practices Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Zoom Link Session Chair: Rachel Clarke, University of the Arts London Session Chair: Michelle Westerlaken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
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More than Weeds: Thickening designer-plant relations in the Sonoran Desert Arizona State University, United States of America Affective relations among humans and more-than-humans are full of shifts, subtleties, and complexities. Yet, design research often treats feelings as stable instruments to utilize for making sustainable climate futures. Through reflection-on-practice, we untangle impressions and gestures in the field during a design research project in the Sonoran Desert titled Gifts for Tempe. Our reflections focus on shifts in our attention and attachments with an ‘invasive’ plant commonly known as Stinknet. The impressions and gestures reveal designer-researchers’ thick tensions in designing for climate futures. By showing how affective relations with more-than-humans change over time, we identify that climate futuring involves learning to gesture from intermediary positions where plural feelings coexist. These accounts of our unfolding relationship with Stinknet in the desert ecosystem show how designers feel their way toward reciprocity with more-than-humans when striving for sustainable climate futures. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2623
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