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PAPERS: Futuring Principles: Ethics, Agency, and More-than-Human Heritage Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-2-edinburgh Session Chair: Marco Mason, Northumbria University Session Chair: Raffaella Trocchianesi, Politecnico di MIlano | |
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Not Post-Digital but More-than-Human: Rethinking Digital Design for Regional Natural History Museums 1: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; 2: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; 3: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom What if the future of digital design in museums isn’t found in cutting-edge institutions, but in the often-overlooked ecologies of regional natural history collections? This paper repositions small regional museums not as lagging behind in digital transformation, but as fertile grounds for exploring more-than-human digital design. Drawing on an ongoing collaborative project between the Portsmouth Natural History Museum and the University of Portsmouth, we reflect on the interactive experiences using low-cost holograms and motion-capture avatars as mediators between human and non-human actors within museum ecologies. Giving collections voices and personalities engaged audiences, yet in attempting to become more-than-human, the collections instead became more human. This tension exposes the limitations of digital museology, where such experiences risk reinforcing anthropocentric ways of knowing. We argue that genuine more-than-human design requires play, provocation, discomfort, and multisensory encounters that decentre the visitor, reframing digital transformation as multispecies collaboration that is not post-digital but posthuman. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.560
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