A new publication from the SSD lab elaborates on workshops, including some we ran with our service systems design students, to explore more-than-human perspectives in the urban realm.
📕 New publication: "When we talk about time, we mean many different things: employing visual mapping to think through more-than-human temporalities in participatory design." 🐪 🍁 🕸 🌱 In recent years, the scope of #participatorydesign has broadened to incorporate perspectives and approaches beyond the human realm. This expansion requires considering multiple aspects to thoroughly capture #morethanhumans diversity and concerns, but how can we do so? ⏳ In this paper, Luca Simeone, Amalia de Götzen, Nicola Morelli, and I suggest tackling this multifaceted challenge by examining more-than-human perspectives through the angle of time. 🗾 The paper consolidates the term ‘participatory visual mapping’ and investigates its potential to support stakeholders in navigating the complex dimensions of more-than-human time. The findings demonstrate how visual mapping can facilitate: ☝ Thinking beyond linearity ✌ Developing awareness of workshop-related temporality 👉 Making time concrete 🤜 Understanding the ‘far lense’ through the ‘near lense’ 🖐 Comprehending time’s relationality 👐 Considering multiple timespans simultaneously. Based on these findings, we suggest that visual mapping can help understand more-than-human temporalities in participatory design by thinking through them as a reflective practice. The open-access #paper was published in Frontiers in #Communication as part of the #research topic: Communicating with Non-humans: A New Visual Language, and was edited by Melanie Sarantou. https://lnkd.in/duQF-3ys AAU CREATE Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology, Service Design Lab, Aalborg University