Gordon Hush

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Transdisciplinary Conversations about the Planet Ungekürzte Lesung. 780 Min.
Sprecher: Rottger, James / Redaktion: Caccavale, Elio; Hush, Gordon

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Produktbeschreibung

How can design shine a light on humanity's relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants, now and in the future? Global challenges like climate change and ecosystem degradation are proving that a singular disciplinary approach is inadequate to respond to issues where societal behaviours, individual choices, political decisions, economic, technological and scientific developments are so densely entangled - not least in design. But what happens when we turn things around and decentre "the human" to look at our relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants beyond the capitalist human-nature binary worldview? Design Beyond the Human is a collection of essays by international scholars, designers and engaged citizens traversing activism, anthropology, conservation, creative writing, design practice, design theory, economics, education, environmental humanities, ethics, history, indigenous knowledge, law, philosophy, poetry, politics, regenerative agriculture, science, sociology and technology. Divided into three sections - We Are Not Alone, Design Beyond the Human, and Mediating Human–Non-Human Relations Through Design - the text generates conversations capable of thinking about life on planet Earth, challenging the Anglo-European anthropocentric conceptualisation of design that dominates practice, education, and academic discourse. Each section is unique: charting the transdisciplinary cultural perspective that is required to comprehend our predicament, the critique of human-centred design and its interdependence with capitalism, and the nascent practices and projects that are attempting to reconcile humanity's possible relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants. The book offers the reader an opportunity to engage with expertise, knowledge, methodologies and lived experiences from across disciplines shaped by shared concerns and provides an opportunity to question if design in a more-than-human way might reimagine design's relationship to capitalism and contemporary lifestyles. Will our planetary future be merely an ecologically aware version of today, or, in going beyond the human, might we develop a transdisciplinary perspective capable of imagining an alternative vision of life on Earth?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350599369
• Artikelnr.: 75690353

Autorenporträt

Professor Gordon Hush is Head of the School of Innovation & Technology at The Glasgow School of Art, UK. He is a Sociologist, with an interest in the way that design-led innovation initiates and informs social, economic and ecological change. He is keen to explore the ways in which scientific or technological expertise are incorporated within or applied to the material circumstances and design outcomes which shape human experience, and the consequences that these have for life on the planet.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword
Erin O'Donnell (University of Melbourne
Australia) Introduction
Elio Caccavale and Gordon Hush (Glasgow School of Art
UK) Section I: We Are Not Alone 1. A Political Economy of Structural Anthropocentrism
Steven McMullen (Hope College
USA) 2. Co-Creating Multispecies Worlds
Danielle Celermajer (University of Sydney
Australia) and Matthew Darmour-Paul (Australia National University
Australia) 3. Global Trajectories of Oil Palm: From African Communal Groves to Asian Plantation Frontiers
Noboru Ishikawa (Kyoto University
Japan) 4. The Call of the Cricket
Helen Hollyman (Independent Scholar
USA) and James Skeet (Co-founder Sprit Farm
Navajo Nation
USA) 5. Design
Education and the Moulding of Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene
Peter Sutoris (University of Leeds
UK) Section II: Design Beyond the Human 6. Design and the Invention of the Modern Human
Samer Akkach and John Powell (University of Adelaide
Australia) 7. Ecological Design Thinking in the Anthropocene/Ecocene
Joanna Boehnert (Bath Spa University
UK) 8. Indigenous Design: A Relational Practice Between People and Place
Desiree Hernandez Ibinarriaga (Monash University
Australia) 9. Life-Centered Design: A Sub-Saharan Perspective
François-Xavier Nzi iyo Nsenga
(Independent Scholar
Rwanda) 10. Design and Deep Time
Naiyi Wang (China Central Academy of Fine Arts
China) 11. Orbital Debris: Design and its Extraterrestrial Aftermath
Alice Twemlow (Royal Academy of Art
the Netherlands) Section III: Mediating Human-Non-Human Relations Through Design 12. Consider Everything: A New Kind of Design for a Computationally Irreducible World
J. Paul Neeley (Royal College of Art
UK) 13. Planetarity: Designing for Coexistence - Erinma Ochu (University of the West of England
UK) and Caroline Ward (The Royal College of Art
UK) 14. Indigenous Futures: Epistemologies of Care for a World in Crisis
Felipe Viveros (Culture Hack Labs
UK) 15. A Bottom-Up Approach to Conservation: The Vertical University
Nepal
Priyanka Bista (Vertical University
Nepal) 16. Design That Thinks Like a Mountain
Xinlin Song (Yunhe Centre
China) 17. A Larger
Less Humanised Design Community
Kate Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan University
UK) 18. Talking Materials: A Discursive Design Practice for a Design Beyond the Human. Domitilla Dardi (European Institute of Design
Italy) 19. Towards a Culture of Life: A New Synthesis for the Living World
Rachel Armstrong (KU Leuven
Belgium) 20. Designing the Future of Agriculture
Kris Spiros (From Fauna
USA) Afterword
Elio Caccavale and Gordon Hush (Glasgow School of Art
UK) Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

Connecting relevant dots in an emerging transdisciplinary discourse - both well-known positions and weak signals. The broad disciplinary nature of this book allows and encourages thinking and exploration of design for social, ecological, and political transformations. It could become a compass for entering uncharted territory for Humanity!