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Scaling bodily fluids for utopian fabulations
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1454-7854
AHO The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7673-0822
2021 (English)In: Nordes 2021: Matters of scale: Proceedings of the The 9th Nordes Design Research conference, Kolding, Denmark, 2021Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper explores human bodily fluids for more-than-human collaborative survival. We present four utopian fabulations in which urine, menstrual blood, and human milk are designed with beyond the scale of a singular human body. Each fabulation illustrates queer scales and uses of bodily fluids through extended or improper uses as pathways towards caring multi-species relations within a damaged environment. From these narratives, we reflect on imagining generous collaborations for an openness towards unknowable possibilities and crafting different measures through the tensions of coinciding scales.

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2021.
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Nordic design research conference, ISSN 1604-9705 ; 9
Keywords [en]
bodily fluids, collaborative survival, queer scales
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-224064OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-224064DiVA, id: diva2:1857249
Conference
The 9th Nordes Design Research conference, Kolding, Denmark, 2021
Funder
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, RIT15-0046
Note

QC 20210629

Available from: 2024-05-13 Created: 2024-05-13 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved

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