Mer än mänskligt : Att söka resonans över de skiftande gränserna mellan mänsklighet och djuriskhet

This project investigates how design can foster new relational systems between human animals and other-than human animals, with a focus on paying attention to the animality within humans with an aim for multispecies’ animality care The central question addressed is: how can we construct a new paradigm for coexistence between humans and animals by designing systems that prioritize collaborative care, empathy, and sustainability? The methodology adopted is metadesign, emphasizing the need for co-creation, embodied practices, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The project is a theoretical inquiry that resulted in a proposal for collaborative engagement like caring exercises, to pay attention to the animality in us humans, through co-exercising. Furthermore I explored how different knowledge systems—such as Traditional Chinese metaphysics and animal ethics—could inform each other and my design process. The outcomes of this project include a series of interactive practices, and metaphysical tools designed to foster empathy, interdependence, and sustainable care. These tools aim to create transformative experiences that invite participants to reflect on their relationships with “humanity” and “animality”. This process showed how design can seed new practices of relational sustainability that move beyond anthropocentric paradigms, and how design can be a catalyst for change by fostering mutual care and shared responsibility across species.