FAIR researchers Marcos Chilet and Martín Tironi publish book chapter on more-than-human design

UC School of Design academics and FAIR researchers Marcos Chilet and Martín Tironi published the chapter “Designing with Planetary Artificial Intelligence” in the book More-Than-Human Design in Practice, published by Routledge. This work explores the multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding in posthumanism and presenting practical examples and design methods. The book addresses the urgent need to reimagine design as current processes contribute to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. It proposes a perspective that broadens the focus beyond exclusively human considerations to include animals, plants and microbes.

The book examines the relationship between sustainability and design, covering topics such as artificial intelligence, systems thinking, futures studies, and pedagogy. It also presents a variety of case studies grounded in more-than-human thinking, demonstrating how it can be incorporated into practice.

It is worth mentioning that Marcos Chilet and Martín Tironi, alongside Iohanna Nicenboim from Delft University and Joseph Lindley from Lancaster University, wrote a chapter on the planetary agency of artificial intelligence and how extractivist logics need to be situated on a scale rarely considered from the epistemology of design: the planet. As case studies, the exhibition “Hybrid Ecologies” by Manuela Garretón and Martín Tironi was addressed, exploring how to apply planetary thinking to design practice today.

Monday, December 9, 2024