Table of Contents

List of Figures
Foreword, Andreas Weber (Bard College Berlin, Germany)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Bio-centric?
1. Poetics of Relating
2. Responding
3. Alter-natives
4. (De)signing Alter-natives
As a Mode of Closing: Encounters
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Challenges the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity and puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that supports a harmonious relationship between all life forms that share our planet.

About the Author

Martín Ávila is a designer, researcher, and Professor of Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Martín’s postdoctoral project Symbiotic Tactics (2013-2016) was the first of its kind to be financed by the Swedish Research Council. His research is design-driven and addresses forms of interspecies cohabitation.

Reviews

The book’s greatest strength is its insistence that more-than human beings be taken seriously as co-habitants of human habitations. But instead of simply making the case for his thesis in words, the author has practiced and built experiments in creating interspecies co-habitations. In this original book, Ávila does not romanticize or demonize interspecies relations, but treats them with the nuance they deserve, giving due respect to the complexities of our relations, our attractions, our revulsions.
*Kriti Sharma, California Institute of Technology, USA*