DESIGN PROPOSALS FOR SPECULATIONS ON CAREFUL LIVING WITH OTHER SPECIES by Designskolen Kolding

DESIGN PROPOSALS FOR SPECULATIONS ON CAREFUL LIVING WITH OTHER SPECIES

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 7 Design Proposals for Speculations on Careful Living With Other Species 9 Entangled With Elements 10 Agata Budner 13 Katharine Graham 23 Josephine Bach Lund 33 Entangled With Air 43

DESIGN PROPOSALS FOR SPECULATIONS ON CAREFUL LIVING WITH OTHER SPECIES Catalogue with contributions by: Students and teachers from Design School Kolding’s PLANET master program

Published in April 2021

Rasmus Julius Rostrup Hansen 45 Tina Bull 55 Carlo Spini 65 Microcompanions 75

Alison Marinas Palomino 77

Angela Charlotte Marie Munro 87 Kristian Kjærgaard Stougaard 97

Wearing Companions 107 Amarins Amna 109 Indre Zvirzyte 119 Michelle Pedersen 127 Natalie Vencovska 137 Amalie Frederikke Duborg 147 Questioning Entanglements 157 Weronika Cyrankiewicz 159 Lloyd Revald 171 Aymeric Delécaut 183 (Un)Wanted Entanglements

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Henriette Frøslev Hjortshøj 197 Marie Pavlik 207 Literature 219

INTRODUCTION

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DESIGN PROPOSALS FOR SPECULATIONS ON CAREFUL LIVING WITH OTHER SPECIES

ENTANGLD WITH ELEMENTS

Up to 60% of the human body is water. Water is what binds us in this project as well as in life. The three projects focus on observation, conversation and understanding - covering different interactions to establish a feeling of responsibility for this crucial element and its citizens. Through these projects we hope to ignite the viewers’ understanding and respect towards things they otherwise would not notice. If we don’t take care of nature today, the world of the future will suffer. We ARE water.

Agata Budner

ENTANGLED WITH ELEMENTS

SIELECKI PARK

PROMENADA POND

AGATA BUDNER

CZERNIAKOWSKIE LAKE

KRÓLIKARNIA POND

SŁUŻEWIECKA VALLEY

Agata Budner

VISTULA RIVER

Agata Budner

Katharine Graham

JOIN US for the

Inaugural

FORGOTTEN SPACES Experience

15 August 2031 Kolding residents are invited to dine with Kolding Havn’s subsea residents. 13:00 Lowering of the sea-creatures platter into Kolding Havn. 13:30 Human dinner commences accompanied by a live stream of its reception for the human diners.

Katharine Graham

Floating Screen

Fish platter

Katharine Graham

Josephine Bach Lund

Reflect

The sources of electricity and light will not continue to stay the way we know today. In the future we have to look at our relationship with nature in a new way. And see it as a co-creator. To do that we have to appreciate the wonders that are in nature and take care of it. In the future we can co-create and make new wonderful things.

Josephine Bach Lund

The aim of the installation is to inspire and motivate people to see the potential nature has. In this case as a source of light. That is why the installation has been created to give a positive experience with the engagement with the light from the ocean.

Josephine Bach Lund

The installation is based by Tangkroen in Aarhus. The focus is on the engagement between nature and culture, letting the by-passers experience an imitation of the bioluminescence from the ocean. 37

Josephine Bach Lund

The experience

Josephine Bach Lund

The light is only controlled by the nature. The light reflections in this installation are “controlled” by the natural light from the sky and from the waves. The by-passers can not control it, but we can be amazed from a distance.

ENTANGLD WITH AIR

We can’t always see it, hear it, touch it, but the air is everywhere and anywhere and are able to determine life and death. Yet, it is many times being overlooked, taken for granted and unappreciated. Imagine a relationship between humans and air that are based on trust, understanding and respect. Imagine a world where we take care of and appreciate each other. Imagine the impact of such a change of relations.

Rasmus Julius Rostrup Hansen

The Air Bunker

The final concept is an Air Bunker, that provides shelter for the plants species Hedera Helix and a clean air supply, for the humans living close to the site.

Rasmus Julius Rostrup Hansen

One air bunker is a closed ecosystem that the Hedera Helix plant live in and grow on. It functions as a place where humans can go in and breathe. The bunker collects the clean air at an air-station where humans can re-fill clean air to a transportable tank.

Rasmus Julius Rostrup Hansen

How it works

The bunkers supply the sidewalk with clean air. Under the dome is the underground bunker located, with is a place for humans to seek escape to, when extreme weather occurs with smog. It is the collaboration and the exchange of gases and chemicals between plants and humans that makes the system work.

Air - generating Hedeara Helix farm

Sidewalk tube

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Scaled model - 1 : 350

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We are building Air Bunkers

Tina Bull

Wearing Wearing The The Wind Wind

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Wearing The Wind

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Wearing The Wind

Wearing the Wind

A new design collaborative has emergerged between humans and wind all over the world. It has changed the way both humans and wind present and express themselves. Both parties equally visible and present in the moment. Feeling, appreciating and enjoying each others company. The wind brings life, love and energy to humans, and the humans gives life, love and energy back in return to the wind. A loving, caring and collaborative relationship.

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Wearing The Wind

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Wearing The Wind

Humans x Wind

The design studio has been moved outside and is ready for the humans and wind of Herning City to begin their design collaboration. The humans are responsible for choosing and placing the most interresting and beautiful textiles, and the wind is in charge of bringing life to it. Together they shape and create a personal and unique design. A collaborative relationship dependent on each other.

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Carlo Enrico Spini

FLUID DESIGN FOR PLANET

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Carlo Enrico Spini

Engagement

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Photos of the installation applied on various spots in Barcelona, Spain.

The proposal engage with the audience through a on the poster that connect directly to the video.

QR_code

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Carlo Enrico Spini

CHECK THE VIDEO

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The video

https://vimeo.com/534305730

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A.I.R.E corporation

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Free the Air

Visual identity of the fictional activist campaign

FREE THE AIR.

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MICROCOMPANIONS

Microspecies are often disregarded in our everyday lives. Yet they have crucial roles of maintaining the biological balances that keep the natural cycles of mother Earth and its many species in sync. However, we humans have a tendency of wanting to exterminate things that threaten our systems and that which we don’t understand. The following projects work under the premise of the importance to take notice of even the smallest companions, who are all around us. Through them we want to encourage curiosity for future caring environments with these microcompanions where meaningful and respectful entanglements are created as a way to rekindle a symbiotic relationship with Nature.

Alison Marinas Palomino

Angela Charlotte Marie Munro

Bacteria X Humans Re k i ndl in g th e sy m bio tic relat ionship to mi c ro - species liv in g o n o ur bodies. I nv i s i bl e to th e n ake d eye , our bodies play h o s t to m illion s o f microorga nisms. I n re t u r n for th e ir h abitat, mic robes help us m ai n t ai n th e balan ce of o ur bodies a nd our m e n tal h e alth . Scie n tists have begun to unrave l j u s t h ow mu ch impact these compa nion c re atu re s h ave on o u r ge n era l well being.

“ What if our clothe s containe d liv ing organisms that he lpe d ke e p the m “ c le an” w hile also contributing to our ove rall he alth, in re turn for our de ad skin ce lls and swe at.” - A mutual collaborative contamination.

As s u c h, wh at we pu t on o ur skin ha s a direc t i m pac t o n o u r bodie s. R e k i nd l in g a sen se o f care towa rds our c lot hes. Fas h i o n is still th e se co n d most pollut ing i n du s t r y in th e wo r ld. A signiﬁ ca nt pa rt of t h e re s p on sibility lie s in our ha nds, not only w h e n c h o osin g wh at we purc ha se, w hen an d h ow ofte n - bu t to a great extent a lso t h e way in wh ich we care for our c lot hes. C u r re n tly th e m ost com m on ca ring rit ua l we pe r for m fo r o u r clo th e s is wa shing t hem. Bu t i s th is re ally as car in g a s we t hink? Th e re ality is th at wash in g our c lot hes a s m u c h as we do to day, we ars t he ﬁ bers out to qu i c kly, wh ile also h av ing da ma ging e f fe c t s o n o u r plan e t' s e nvironment . 87

Angela Charlotte Marie Munro

The following pages are a glimpse of a future scenario in which Laundromats have become Microbial Care Centers. Not only are they places to care for our clothes and our microbe companions, but they have also become part of our general health-system with a team of microbiologists working in labs attached to each center - Analysisng the needs of your health and your speciﬁc microbiome. (Spot them through the window in the seating area of the care center - next page) With this future scenario, I would like to invite people to co-speculate on a not so far future - I believe - in which bacteria and other microorganisms have become a central part of our everyday lives and our general health-system. Recognized as crucial collaborators for a more sustainable future.

GIVE YOUR CLOTHES NEW LIFE

Angela Charlotte Marie Munro

STEP 1

STEP 2

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Kristian Kjærgaard Stougaard

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WEARING COMPANIONS

From the very beginning of the human age, we have had close connections with nature for life, protection, care and decoration. However, with time and industrial change, we, as humans, have put ourselves at the centre of all beings no longer caring for our relations with nature. We have forgotten the importance of other beings and how we use and take care of them. We want to create new entanglements. Taking responsibility, recreating close bond and taking up old traditions enable to create relations of care with nature. What if we truly understood the importance of our entanglement with nature?

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Amarins Amna

My proposal is a living archive and installation, of the participants entanglements with plants and textile production. Suggesting a close interaction with the materials and weaving (construction) of textiles, in an easy to approach concept. The frame of the installation was inspired by information and exhibition design. Communicating through the loom and the materials. It is positioned in front of Væksthusene in Aarhus Botanical Gardens. Here the installation will be a part of the storytelling about the plants, their habitats, impact and value as well as our understanding, of the influence we have, to create change. The proposal invites for speculation through noticing, and getting entangled in the transparency of the process and materials through the frame’s pathway. As well as participating in close engagements, by tying bonds with the natural materials helping to bring together disparate parts into a new whole, by weaving their own material stories.

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Væksthusene_(indgang)_Wikipedia

Living archive Plants & weaving Væksthusene

Væksthusene i Botanisk Have i Aarhus_Realdania.dk

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Passer-by

Facilitator Participator Observer

Participators Audience

Close interaction Plant stories Communication tool

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Tying bonds Bring together Material stories

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Indre Zvirzyte

Symbiosis. Indre Žvirzdyte MA1 Design for Planet Fashion design

https://www.flickr.com/photos/maxleurentop/6792574845/

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Indre Zvirzyte

Proposal My proposal is based on an experiment with designing with livingness. A speculative design offer that would create a more entangled relationship between human and plant. By experimenting with plants together with fabrics excluding soil, discover how humans influence plants, and vice versa. Bringing plants and clothing into one, will allow humans to regain their bond with nature through care and touch.

What if plants could develop life as clothing for our body?

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Indre Zvirzyte

Engagement with the site and audience Peoples engagement starts in the private home where they are supplied with fabric and seeds. Using care instructions they start an experiment of growing the clothing. With every step of the growth the living clothing design and entanglement develops.

Wearers of these garments sends the message by walking around Aarhus city.

Design changes over time

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Indre Zvirzyte

Audience speculation Seeing how people would react to such a display and if their curiosity will trigger them to either distance themselves or question what the purpose is. It might lead to speculations if they are aware of natures importance in our everyday life. How living clothing could influence our normal habits. Could it make us think of what we wear and how.

Aarhus streets

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Michelle Pedersen

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Natalie Vencovska

CL0THES ® C0-L1V1NG CALCULAT0R 137

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[yours

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Welcome to the world‘s first clothes co-living calculator. Exlusively brought to you by ccc® in colaboration with thousands of individual wardrobes across the word.

_by following and filling out your questions you will get to know all the tiny performances you execute every single day together with your clothing. To make your interactions even more conscious, you will get printed receipt with your unique calculation of your interaction. With that the programme also assign you your unique What if_ question so then your specilation can continue within your home as well.

Calculate your interactions/

/ Wonder_

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start calculating <enter your data_

_ buying clothes physicaly month _ buying clothes online month day

_ choosing what to wear _ dressing up/ undressing /

/ day

_ touching your clothes while wearing / / day _organizing /

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_washing clothes + drying / _ ironing + folding / _ repairin / _ making /

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Calculate your interactions/

/ Wonder_

CL0THES C0-L1V1NG CALCULAT0R_

our clothes had voice?

_ we could be more conscious about our clothes care just by „seeing“ the importance of it? _ could measure something intangible by using familiar tangible tools and language?

Welcome to the world‘s first clothes co-living calculator. Exlusively brought to you by ccc® in colaboration with thousands of individual wardrobes across the word.

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Amalie Frederikke Duborg

PREFERRED FUTURES As humans we position ourselves in the center of all beings. We´ve made the decision: what is a being and what is not. Over the years, humans has treated non-beings poorly. How can we stop this cycle and make people curious as to what is a being, and what is not.

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The artefact invites people to speculate upon what is a being. The site offers several activities. There is no rules on this site for the visitor.

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Visible footprints leading up to the artefact. When they step their foot on the root, music will start playing(the biological activity).

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WHAT IF WE PERCEIVED THE TREE AS A BEING? How would the relationship change? What would that mean for the future of trees?

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Amalie Frederikke Duborg

THE TREE IS A BEING The relationship will change. Empathy, curiosity and respect for the tree. Education about trees and how to live amongst them.

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Future: Learning device in school Gardeners tool

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QUESTIONING ENTANGLEMENTS

More than ever it is important to question what entanglement is and how we perceive it. From asking what is human privilege and the connection to wild nature and our physical and mental entanglement to other species. Entanglement is not only a phenomenon in our everyday life but it also relates to our history, culture and our actions. As humans, we crave bonding, we keep searching, analysing, we try to understand. The thing is, what we’re looking for is what we already had. The challenge that modern times put in front of us to find it, redefine the entanglement, reconnect and rethink everything. We got lost, we got detached, we destroyed our environment for our own sake. The time to face our acts has come, it’s time to slow down, take a deep breath and build connection all over again.

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Weronika Cyrankiewicz

01 CON CON is an interactive installation based on an act of confession – a pattern deeply rooted in catholic religion. The idea behind is to encourage audience to confront their acts and confess, not to god, not to a priest, but to nature. The concept consists of two layers - digital and physical. The physical form is based on a standalone traditional confessional shape which can be installed in any urban space. The digital layer is a web app that enables users to submit their sins and see what others shared. The desired outcome of speculation is triggering reﬂection through confronting personal acts, acts that we can all admit to and that we are not very proud of.

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Weronika Cyrankiewicz

The installation The ﬁrst prototype was designed on basis of a traditional, standalone confessional and built from cardboard. The user scenario is based on a mentioned scheme of confession, however the approach and interpretation is personal and intimate. It gives plenty of space for reﬂection and allows to confront nature as it is.

confessional

uninterrupted wild nature

Facing nature in this very special act of confession lets us to look at it from different perspective, lifts companion beings higher, even higher than ourselves, at least for this short moment of reﬂection on our acts.

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Engagement Users were asked to spend a while in front of the confessional and write their sins on the surface. Admitting, confronting and sharing guilts gives the act a whole new layer, allows to share, discuss, reﬂect and – ideally – motivates to improve.

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Weronika Cyrankiewicz

Speculation on site Speculation took place in Amager Fælled in Copenhagen. The location is particularly meaningful due to ongoing protests against urbanisation of this – almost last – bastion of wild nature in the city, so loved by many.

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Interaction CON is a multi-layered project with assisting web app that allows users to get to know the story behind the concept at anytime, from anywhere. It also makes sharing and confronting sins much more accessible and gives the whole experience a global potential.

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Communication

The project is backed up with a layer of storytelling through graphic materials. Posters, Social Media assets and other forms of broadcasting the message let it spread further and trigger curiosity among wider audience. 169

Lloyd Revald

03 Tree 02 REKI duties Tree A REWILDING-KIT duties is an installation FOR MORE withBIODIVERSITY. the purpose to make people reflect and bond with trees, through personification. This idea has already sprouted in various countries by giving trees rights. The personification is enhanced REKI is an in opportunity this installation for humans by speculating to consciously how trees use their couldhuman have duties. privilege Thetoinstallation effect biodiversity. has 4 different How and objects how and much is aplaced human onchoose a site called to use The the rewilding-kit Reunion Square is up . to them. They choose what to rewild, where and how much space to frame. It is up to a given human, who have this kit in their inventory or at hand, to use the tools, at their own desired intention to co-speculate and effectively bring human privilege into effect and take a stand in the discussion of biodiversity. REKI can both be mounted or placed close to a given location. The white cross and a poster, close to the kit suggests an opportunity to explore and open the kit to rewild the area.

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Lloyd Revald

REKI REKI is an opportunity for humans to consciously use their human privilege to effect biodiversity. How and how much a human choose to use the rewilding-kit is up to them. They choose what to rewild, where and how much space to frame. The REKI-kit consists of a box, tools and a suggestion-manual.

What if we let nature become nature through human privileges to create what might at ﬁrst, seem insigniﬁcant to us, to create caring towards other species? (2025)

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Engagement It is up to a given human, who have this kit in their inventory or at hand, to use the tools, at their own desired intention to co-speculate and effectively bring human privilege into effect and take a stand in the discussion of biodiversity.

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Speculation on site Speculation took place in Kolding close to the Spanish Stairs in centrum Kolding. REKI can both be mounted to a wall or placed close to a given location. The white cross and a poster, close to the kit suggests an opportunity to explore and open the kit to rewild the area.

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Interaction REKI (Rewilding-kit) brings attention to human privileges and how it has, over time impacted: how, where and when nature can evolve. With the suggestion manual as part of the kit, you get direct suggestions to create more biodiversity in urban environments.

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Rule for REKI EN What and how much you want to do is up to you, but the most important thing is that you do something. DK Hvad og hvor meget du vil gøre, er op til dig, det vigtigste er dog at du gør noget. FR Ce que vous voulez faire et ce que vous voulez faire dépend de vous, mais le plus important est de faire quelque chose. ES Qué y cuánto quieres hacer depende de ti, pero lo más importante es que hagas algo.

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Aymeric Delécaut

04 REKI 03 REWILD REWILD A REWILDING-KIT is a way of FOR looking MORE at things. BIODIVERSITY. It is a way of questioning our place on our mother planet Earth. It is also a call to action for the sake of our environment. Or at least to assess what we are prepared to do for it. Should REKI is we an opportunity admire nature forto humans the point to consciously of devouringuse it to their the human end or should privilege wetoinstead effect biodiversity. take part in its How evolution? and how The much basis a human of mychoose reﬂection to use andthe of REWILD rewilding-kit are rooted is up tointhem. the writing They choose of the what manifesto to rewild, of which where youand willhow ﬁndmuch a quick space summary to frame. It onisthe up following to a givenpage. human, who have this kit in their inventory or at hand, to use the tools, at their own desired intention to co-speculate and effectively bring human privilege into effect and take a stand in the discussion of biodiversity. REKI can both be mounted or placed close to a given location. The white cross and a poster, close to the kit suggests an opportunity to explore and open the kit to rewild the area.

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The living beings* leaﬂet for Human ®

1. Share the earth’s space equitably.

2. Consider Human ® as an animal.

3. Respect the social space.

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Short story Far from what you know, in the future, after having colonized different planets, the interplanetary government launches a new organization called «REWILD». This organisation is based on the rules of «The living beings leaﬂet for Human ®» and tries to make the Earth great again.

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Act! 1.

Choose your location: Kolding, Denmark The Station Square

Buy a pavement stone.

3. We plant something WILD for you!

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Visit us at www.rewild.org

The website allows the link between Virtual and Real. The line between the two is becoming increasingly blurred over time to the detriment of the natural. 191

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Promoted in

Kolding Tokyo London

The site-speciﬁc installation will be a billboard promoting the website. The user will be able to take a photo in front of it and it will also bring nature, the future nature already present on the site in the form of a green wall. 193

(UN)WANTED ENTANGLEMENTS

Careful entanglements and compassion with non-human-species; Since the beginning of life, entanglements and companionships have existed among species. For some it has filled an empty stomach, for others it has caused suffering and end of life. But after all it has always been for the cause of nature. Up until now. Through decades, even centuries, human way of living has brought the cause of nature out of balance. Non-human species are suffering more than ever and at such a pace that they are unable to reproduce themselves. How can we speculate on this unwanted entanglement between humans and non-humans? How can we make them wanted? How can we encourage love and compassion between humans and nonhuman species?

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IMAGINING PREFERABLE FUTURES... ’it is now easier to imagine an end to the world than to imagine an end to capitalism.’ Fredri c Jam e so n

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. . . I N CO M PA N I O N S H I P W I T H D U C K S A p ro v ocativ e project based on the d ra m atic contrast between the fast p ro g ression of human species and the f o rc ed regression of the nonhuman, Th e re sult of the project is an int era ctiv e experiment placed in t h e m iddle of the Rainbow b ridge in Ko ld ing with the p urp ose of starting p er s o n al sp eculation. A p lace filled w ith c onflicting ob jects left by b oth h uman and nonhuman species. The artefact catalysing the experiment is s h o w ing the ob jects and what they a re s ymb olising and as a result of the t w o p il lars - one for progression and o ne f o r regression - being sep arated, 199

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th e v iew e r i s f o rc ed t o a c tivate the bo d y i n ord er t o pa r t icipate . The a n s w ers are vis u a lis ed with threa ds, pro v ing the en t a n glemen ts be twe e n hu m an s a n d n o n - h u ma ns. B y b e i ng conf ro n t ed wit h c onflic ting subjects of today’s systems, the viewer is forced to choose between the human a n d the n o n - hu ma n . Fur the r more th e y are in vit ed t o pu t t he m se l v es in t h e place of a du c k . An i n v i t ati on to ref lec t o n hu ma n w ay o f livin g in c on t rast to no n - hu ma n a n d may be s pec u lat e on p ref e rred f u t u res in c om pani o n s hip. 201

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HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FAC E M A S K (plastic)

INTOXICANTS CIGARETTE BUDS (plastic, heavy metals)

REGENERATIVE MATERIALS BRANCH

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT FLAMINGO FOAM

DEGROWTH FEATHER

CONSUMERISM RECEIPT

(wood)

(cells)

HUMAN VANITY TOOTHPICK (plastic)

CRAFTSMANSHIP CAPSULE (metal, plastic)

GLOBALISATION SODA CAP (plastic)

BIODIVERSITY DEAD BEEDLE (cells)

PLANT MEDICINE MUSHROOM (bacteria)

(plastic)

(paper, dye)

HUMAN / NON-HUMAN EQUALITY WITHERED LEAF (cellulose)

MASS PRODUCTION STRAW (plastic)

LOCALISM POPSICKLE STICK (wood)

AGRICULTURE BREAD CLIP (plastic, metal)

INTERTAINMENT SERVICES ’TO-GO CUP’ LID (plastic)

DIGITALISATION SODA CAN

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY PILL CAPSULE

ACT I V E DA I LY L I F E CANDY WRAP

CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT N E W S PA P E R

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THE REGRESSION FOR PROGRESSION MANIFESTO Progress is not always progress.

WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF PROGRESSION Wherever, whenever we are, obvious artefacts of the past proves progress. Phones, cars and buildings show how fast we have moved. WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF CHANGING TIMES Wherever, whenever we are, hidden signs in the present proves that progress is not always progress. The temperatures are rising, habitats destroyed and species extinct show that we have moved too far too fast. COULD WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF REGRESSION Wherever, whenever we will be, signs from the present will tell stories for the future. Of how we moved backwards to move forward, of how ‘undoing’ and ‘not doing’ became new methods for progression. SHOULD WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF PROGRESSION? Henriette Hjortshøj (2021)

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(N.) THE INEVITABLE DISCOVERY OF WHAT WE WOULD RATHER NOT KNOW FINAL PRESENTATION // MARIE PAVLIK // PREFERRED FUTURES

PREFERRED FUTURES // DSKD, MA1 // DESIGN FOR PLANET 2021

ZEMBLANITY;

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MANIFESTO // WHY // MOTIVATION

RE-WILD We’re replacing wild with tame. Half of the fertile land on earth is now farmland. Most of the planets birds are domestic birds. A further majority of mammals .. are the animals we raise to eat. The rest from mice to whales, make up just 4 percent. This is now OUR planet, run by HUMAN kind, for HUMAN kind. There is little left for the rest of the living world. Is the living world ours to take, use and abuse? Do we need to cause suffering? Or can we be intelligent enough to become wise? The wild is not as wild as it once was. We’ve DESTROYED it, not just ruined it, we have completely DESTROYED the non-human world. We need to RESTORE biodiversity the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis. 209

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RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

HOW MIGHT WE: CREATE A CRITICAL DESIGN THAT ENCOURAGES CONSUMERS OF ANIMAL-PRODUCT TO REFLECT ON THEIR CONSUMPTION HABITS AND ENCOURAGE ACTING WITH CARE AND COMPASSION TOWARDS NON-WHUMAN SPECIES?

LOCATION:

URBAN SPOT / LOCATION: SUPERMARKETS EX: FØTEX / REMA IN KOLDING

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FINAL DESIGN

ZEMBLANITY IS THE NEW SPECULATIVE SUPERMARKET. THIS PROVOCATIVE SUPERMARKET CONFRONTS THE CONSUMERS WITH THE SOURCES OF THE PRODUCTS, THROUGH PACKAGING-DESIGN. SO IF YOU ARE READY TO GET CHALLENGED EMOTIONALLY AND ETHICALLY, ZEMBLANITY IS THE SUPERMARKET FOR YOU.

BRA-DESIGN USED AS MILK-PACKAGING. HUMAN MOTHER // COW MOTHER 213

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TEST

TESTING FUR/ LEATHER MATERIALS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: LIKEABILITY // TOUCH // INTELLIGENCE //VALUE // SUSTAINABILITY PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

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LITERATURE

Required readings Auger, J. (2018) Speculative Design: Crafting the Speculation. De la Bellacasa, M. P. (2012). ‘Nothing Comes Without Its World’: Thinking with Care. The Sociological Review, 60(2), 197–216. Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming. MIT press, p. 47- 136 Haraway, D. J. (2013). When species meet (Vol. 3). U of Minnesota Press, p. 249301 Van Dooren, T. (2014). Care. Environmental Humanities, 5(1), 291-294. Tsing, A. L. (2015) The mushroom at the end of the world. Chapter 1 – The Art of Noticing p. 17-25

Additional readings Camere, S., & Karana, E. (2018). Fabricating materials from living organisms: An emerging design practice. Journal of Cleaner Production. 186, pp. 570–584. De La Bellacasa, M. P. (2009). Touching technologies, touching visions. The reclaiming of sensorial experience and the politics of speculative thinking. Subjectivity, 28(1), 297-315. Malpass,M.(2016) Critical Design Practice: Theoretical Perspectives and Methods of Engagement Moisy, A., Pschetz, L. (2017). Designing with Living Organisms. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Research Through Design Conference Designing with Living Organisms, March, pp. 323–339. Tsing, A. (2012). Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species For Donna Haraway. Environmental humanities, 1(1), 141-154.

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