The Future of More-Than-Human Design: A Computing Practice in Crisis?

TY - GEN

T1 - The Future of More-Than-Human Design

T2 - The sixth decennial Aarhus conference

AU - Barendregt, Wolmet

AU - Bekker, Tilde

AU - Berger, Arne

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

AU - Eriksson, Eva

AU - Frauenberger, Christopher

AU - Friedman, Batya

AU - Giaccardi, Elisa

AU - Hansen, Anne-Marie

AU - Jensen, Rikke Hagensby

AU - Light, Ann

AU - Lindley, Joseph

AU - Nicenboim, Iohanna

AU - Nilsson, Elisabet M.

AU - Redström, Johan

AU - Sontopski, Natalie

AU - Wakkary, Ron

AU - Wiberg, Mikael

AU - Yoo, Daisy

N1 - Conference code: 6

PY - 2025/8/30

Y1 - 2025/8/30

N2 - 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 more-than-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.

AB - 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 more-than-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.

KW - Design

KW - HCI

KW - More-than-human

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105016684415

U2 - 10.1145/3737609.3747092

DO - 10.1145/3737609.3747092

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 979-8-4007-2003-1

BT - AAR Adjunct '25

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 18 August 2025 through 22 August 2025

ER -