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Transpecies Design : Design for a Posthumanist World, Paperback / softback Book

Transpecies Design : Design for a Posthumanist World Paperback / softback

Edited by Adrian Parr, Michael Zaretsky

Paperback / softback

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In May 2019, the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.

The primary reasons for this are habitat loss and biodiversity demise caused by changing climate, pollution, introducing nonindigenous species, clearing land, and over population and consumption.

Given this situation, humans must change course as both human wellbeing and the wellbeing of other-than-human species are imbricated in one another.

One way humanity can accomplish the needed transformation is to move beyond an anthropocentric view of life by embracing a transpecies one that is premised upon interconnected flourishing. Transpecies design, as outlined in this book, offers a new approach to regenerating the natural environment while honoring biodiversity.

Rather than presenting the human experience as the goal of design, transpecies design takes the inextricable linkages connecting living things as both its starting point and end goal.

As such, it moves beyond human experience serving as the fundamental ingredient for making better design processes and decisions. This book is essential reading for designers and architects, as well as students of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, art, product design, environmental philosophy, and cultural studies.

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