‘Does Phosphorus Want to Sound Like That?’: Experiencing More-Than-Human Futures
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2024-06-23
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en
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17
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Design Research Society Conference Proceedings
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The paper explores the learning possible from including the public in explora-tions of more-than-human future visions. We presented an installation at a de-sign festival of a speculative scenario that emerged from ethnographic research with urban permaculture farmers, using sounds to represent concentrations of nutrients in soil. We studied how visitors wearing a sensor ring experienced the playing of these sounds upon insertion of a finger in the installation’s soil. Re-sponses underscore the importance of cultivating the skill of noticing through deep listening, alongside the profound connection thus established between humans and the more-than-human world. In a further contribution to more-than-human design, the paper examines implications for practices of noticing and pre-sents four principles for problematising and reimagining how data pertaining to the more-than-human world may be sensed and represented.Description
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more-than-human design, sensing, sonification, soil care, sustainability
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Rosen, A, Sanchez, C & Epp, F A 2024, ‘Does Phosphorus Want to Sound Like That?’: Experiencing More-Than-Human Futures . in C M Gray, E C Chehade, P Hekkert, L Forlano, P Ciuccarelli & P Lloyd (eds), DRS2024: Boston . Design Research Society Conference Proceedings, Design Research Society, pp. 1-17, Design Research Society International Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 23/06/2024 . https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.829