”Regeneration is the natural process of replacing or restoring damaged or missing
cells, tissues, organs, and even entire body parts to full function in plants and animals.
Regenerative practices are currently emerging in agriculture, in organization studies,
and in performance and arts. In design, recent theories and practices in more-than
human design work towards a restoration of “the web of life” by sustaining living
ecologies through care and repair. The Copenhagen based Performative Urbanism lab practices multispecies design through participation and co-creation, working together with multispecies bodies, places and landscapes. While the design practice in Performative Urbanism relates to participatory design, and recent notions
of more-than-human design, it also draws from choreography and scenography as we
explore relationality, affective encounter and movement between bodies. Bodies carry with them sensations and memories.
Bodies matter in places, and they form communities through sensory and embodied
interactions. Such interactions are however often asymmetrical and entangled in capitolocene hegemonies and extractivism. In my presentation I will introduce three
participatory workshops in Performative Urbanism, and critically reflect on how the
participating bodies in multispecies design matter, and to what extent such explorations can possibly shape regenerative futures in the city and in rural landscapes.
| Period | 27 Feb 2023 |
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| Event title | Design and the Posthumanist Perspective |
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| Event type | Lecture |
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| Location | Gothenburg, SwedenShow on map |
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| Degree of Recognition | Regional |
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- Multispecies design
- participatory design
- Embodied knowledge
- regenerative design
- cocreation
- pluriversal design
- regenerative soil
- commoning