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Wanting to live here: design after anthropocentric functionalism

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posted on 2023-06-10, 00:58 authored by Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Ann LightAnn Light
Design research has recently turned to theoretical perspectives, including care ethics and posthumanism, to counter the industrial processes that have led to climate crisis. As design theorists and ethnographers of interaction, we researched experimental eco-farming in a community that shared many of these theoretical and ideological commitments. Our goal was not to offer an account of use and provide design implications in support of it. Instead, we chose to identify concrete practices and artifacts that embody the sorts of industrial transformations that we are seeking—even if they are manifest in an imperfect or partial form. We encountered practices focused on community building, local resilience to climate disruptions, experiments in eco-farming, economic survival, and attracting the next generation. One interlocutor translated these concerns into a simple binary, asking, “do we want to live here?” This paper contributes to a design research agenda that might (eventually) provide an affirmative answer.

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Journal

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Page range

1-24

Pages

24.0

Event name

CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Event location

Yokohama, Japan

Event type

conference

Event date

May 08-13, 2021

Place of publication

New York, NY, USA

ISBN

9781450380966

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

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  • Creative Technology Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2021-09-16

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2021-09-30

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2021-09-16

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