Design For More-Than-Human Futures

Martín Tironi is a sociologist at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; holds a master's degree in Sociology from Sorbonne V and a PhD from Center de Sociologie de l’Innovation, École des Mines de Paris; and is post-doctorate, Center de Sociologie de l’Innovation, École des Mines de Paris. He is Visiting Fellow at the Center for Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2018. His research areas are anthropology of design, multispecies design, digital devices and technologies, and urban infrastructures. He is currently Director of the School of Design of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Head Milenio project ‘Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research’ (FAIR). Marcos Chilet is a designer who earned his undergraduate degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MA from Goldsmith College, University of London. He is now Professor of Future Scenarios at the School of Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His practice and research areas are critical design, the relationship between politics, designers, and media technologies. He recently published the book Materiales Televisivos: hacia una economía digital de los contenidos about the impact of international streaming services in the Chilean TV culture. He was part of the curatorial team of the Chilean pavilion entitled Tectonic Resonances that won the London Design Biennale in 2021. He is currently Sub-Director of the School of Design of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Carola Ureta Marín is a designer and visual communicator based in London, specialized in editorial design, cultural development, and historical research projects. She obtained her BA in Design (2012), an MA in Cultural Management (2015) in Chile, and an MA in Visual Communication from Royal College of Art, London (2022). She was part of the curatorial team of the Chilean pavilion entitled Tectonic Resonances that won the London Design Biennale in 2021. She is a frequent speaker at international congresses on Design Studies and Design History: Taipei (2016), Barcelona (2018), New York (2020), Quebec (2021), and Melbourne (2022). She is Director and Creator of The City as Text (La Ciudad como Texto), a collaborative digital platform that allows online visitors to partake in a virtual walk through 2.4 km of Santiago de Chile's main avenue during a specific date and time. Pablo Hermansen is a designer who holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Dr. Hermansen’s research and publications focus on the material conditions of interspecies coexistence, prototyping as a more-than-human research device, and performative strategies for the political visibility of counter-hegemonic groups in public space. He works in the fields of digital museography and interactive installation and provides consulting services in the area of critical service design for public institutions.

1. Notes on Excess: Towards Pluriversal Design 2. Anticipations of more than human futures 3. Design’s Intimacies: The Indeterminacy of Design with Machines and Mushrooms 4. Growing Materials: Technical and Caring Processes as Rooted Design Practices 5. Learning from Accidental Abundance 6. How would animals and architects co-design if we built the right contract? 7. Before the idiot, the poet? Aesthetic figures and design 8. Revisiting Empathy by Gentrifying Our Guts: Exploring Design as a Cosmopolitical Diplomacy Practice Through Microbial Fruits of Istanbul 9. Design Beyond Human Concerns: A Sancocho-Style Approach 10. Furrowing the ‘Maraña’: Designing to sail out of the Anthropocene