The Future of More-Than-Human Design: A Computing Practice in Crisis?
Given the current ecological crisis, the HCI and design community is showing a growing interest in the adoption of more-than-human perspectives, challenging human-centric approaches.While this has sparked numerous research initiatives, many of them are still a far cry from providing practical solutions or transforming the industry.This also presents a hurdle for teaching more-than-human perspectives to design students, as they may feel powerless to practice those teachings in real-life industrial settings.To bring forth concrete examples of how more-than-human design practice can matter, we believe that it is now time to move beyond theorising about and advocating for the adoption of such perspectives and start a morethan-human design practice that transforms the industry.This workshop therefore aims to bring together educators, researchers, and designers to discuss and co-develop strategies for transitioning more-than-human perspectives from niche/speculation to mainstream/practice in HCI and design.The workshop also aims to develop ways to empower students to work with these perspectives to bring about this transformation of the industry.
Authors
- Iohanna Nicenboim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8363-8282)
- Batya Friedman
- Anne-Marie Hansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4850-8132)
- Elisabet M. Nilsson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6830-1542)
- Peter Dalsgaard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9884-7178)
- Wolmet Barendregt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0730-7286)
- Arne Berger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6398-839X)
- Joseph Lindley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5527-3028)
- Johan Redström (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0976-670X)
- Ann Light (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9145-6609)
- Rikke Hagensby Jensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0009-8840)
- Christopher Frauenberger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0204-881X)
- Tilde Bekker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3087-6017)
- Natalie Sontopski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5392-6189)
- Elisa Giaccardi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3292-2531)
- Ron Wakkary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2073-715X)
- Daisy Yoo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-0630)
- Mikael Wiberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1202-5371)
- Eva Eriksson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6222)
Institutions
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- Malmö University (SE)
- University of Washington (US)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (DE)
- Linz Center of Mechatronics (Austria) (AT)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
- Umeå University (SE)
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-08-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747092
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- Erasmus+