Towards Multispecies Worldings as an Everyday Design Practice

The second part of the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp focuses on co-creative processes which means that we organize, decide, create, and bring into life everything together. Integrating post-anthropocentric and multispecies perspectives into our works and everyday lives is one of the biggest challenges we are facing today. There is lots of theory available, but how can we transform our strategies and practices, and how do they feel like in our bodies? How do they look, sound, smell, and taste? We are of the opinion that in order to address complex and wide ranging dynamics such as the decline of insect population and the destructive ways we relate to ourselves, each other, and the milieu we live with, we need to reconfigure our ways of thinking, doing, and knowing, and harvest the gifts of everyone to access the intelligence of the collective. Furthermore, as the metadesign manifesto argues: “a(A)dapting to change must include re-inventing our practices AND ourselves.” 

The Summercamp was organised and facilitated by Asya Ilgün, Dilan Özkan, Laurin Kilbert and Svenja Keune.

Publications: 

Keune, Svenja, Asya Ilgun, and Colleen Ludwig. “I.N.S.E.C.T—Summercamp: Developing Multispecies Design Perspectives, Practices, and Discourse Through Co-Creating (in) Community.” In Design for Inclusivity, edited by Magda Mostafa, Ruth Baumeister, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, and Martin Tamke, 701–15. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36302-3_52.