A cross-European
hybrid workshop
on December 10, 2024
In this workshop, students from four European universities will come together onsite and online to explore and work with more-than-human perspectives and methodologies in design and development.
Registration deadline: November 26 extended to December 1
Notification date: November 29 December 2
As we have grown to understand our entanglement with complex social-ecological-technological systems, we are becoming increasingly aware of the shortcomings of human-centrism prevalent in current research and practice. Thus, we need to shift towards embracing more-than-human beings, entities, materials, and technologies as actors or companions with which we are intimately entangled and share the world (see e.g., Borthwick et al., 2022; Coskun et al., 2022; Giccardi et al., 2024; Eriksson et al., 2024; Oktay et al., 2024).
In this workshop, we will challenge the human-centred paradigm in design and development and explore how we can learn to listen to the voices, values and needs of our more-than-human companions.
The workshop is organised by Malmö University (SE), Koç University (TU), Oulu University (FI), members of the UNIC alliance (co-funded by the European Union) and the University of Porto (PT). The workshop activities are inspired by the educational resources developed by the Eramus+ project MOVA.