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Generosity in more-than-human design
Stockholm University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1454-7854
2024 (English)In: DRS2024: research papers, Design Research Society, 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Generosity for more-than-human design suggests an openness to change in grappling with human exceptionalism and nonhuman entanglements. Yet the risks of generosity in design practice are largely unarticulated, and it is unclear how designers might practically encounter and navigate them. In response, I first position generosity within feminist theory of intercorporeality as an open dispossession and material exchange that is pre-reflective and asymmetrical. This articulation accounts for nonhuman organisms, objects, and agencies as inseparable from what it means to be a person, affectively and bodily. I then present three design cases of my own that situate generosity in design practice. This includes specifying the relations explored, presence of openness, risks encountered, and applied findings. From these, I discuss the deliberate centering of the human designer and how practically engaging with an intercorporeal model of generosity problematizes some more-than-human relations as more more-than-human than others.

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Design Research Society, 2024.
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generosity, more-than-human, first-person, autotheory
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-231104DOI: 10.21606/drs.2024.766OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-231104DiVA, id: diva2:1907631
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DRS2024, Boston, USA, June 23-28, 2024
Available from: 2024-10-23 Created: 2024-10-23 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved

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