Theme Issue of She Ji
DESIGN KNOWLEDGE
in the Era of Environmental Collapse
Synopsis
This issue of She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation seeks to question the capacity of design to specify preferred future states in the conditions of environmental collapse.
The challenge of addressing the environmental crisis requires innovative approaches that go beyond mitigation of harm. These approaches will have to produce novel techno-social orders able to emancipate all types of nonhuman life, including animals and plants. Beyond life, future societies will have to value the agency of abiotic environments. The resulting orders should and can take the form of shared, more-than-human cultures and practices. Who can specify and bring forth such unfamiliar futures?
Call for Submissions
This issue aims to interrogate possible forms and implications of post-anthropocentric design knowledge. To this end, it invites evidence-driven research articles that engage with the full range of conceptual, scientific, political, social, economic, and technical aspects of design. The analytical frames can be historical, contemporary, or future-oriented. The editors hope to extend the conversation beyond the confines of professional or academic design-communities. Therefore, they welcome contributions from a broad range of disciplines.
Call for proposals ( up to 300 words, excluding references): March 5, 2019
More information here: www.academia.edu
DESIGN KNOWLEDGE
in the Era of Environmental Collapse
Synopsis
This issue of She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation seeks to question the capacity of design to specify preferred future states in the conditions of environmental collapse.
The challenge of addressing the environmental crisis requires innovative approaches that go beyond mitigation of harm. These approaches will have to produce novel techno-social orders able to emancipate all types of nonhuman life, including animals and plants. Beyond life, future societies will have to value the agency of abiotic environments. The resulting orders should and can take the form of shared, more-than-human cultures and practices. Who can specify and bring forth such unfamiliar futures?
Call for Submissions
This issue aims to interrogate possible forms and implications of post-anthropocentric design knowledge. To this end, it invites evidence-driven research articles that engage with the full range of conceptual, scientific, political, social, economic, and technical aspects of design. The analytical frames can be historical, contemporary, or future-oriented. The editors hope to extend the conversation beyond the confines of professional or academic design-communities. Therefore, they welcome contributions from a broad range of disciplines.
Call for proposals ( up to 300 words, excluding references): March 5, 2019
More information here: www.academia.edu