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-(wikipedia.org Triops) Triops cancriformis, a prehistoric critter, older than dinosaurs, commonly called "living fossil" a term coined by Darwin.
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This paper presents the project The Age of Species (TAS) and the 'multispecies approach' addressing the who in care with the aim to disrupt human-centeredness and open up for reconfigurations of design practices to better engage with troubled presents where a myriad of other species is overlooked and becoming extinct. TAS invites designers and scie...
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... The resulting visual and textual narratives are not intended as futures to strive for or against, but instead as fables to think with for the present (Haraway, 2016). In this way, they could be situated in a future, or a parallel now; and regardless of their temporality, they are shaped by feminist utopian commitments (Bardzell, 2018) towards other ways of designing and radically being in the world as and with more-than-human bodies (Jönsson et al., 2019;Lilja, 2019). ...
This paper explores human bodily fluids for more-than-human collaborative survival. We present four utopian fabulations in which urine, menstrual blood, and human milk are designed with beyond the scale of a singular human body. Each fabulation illustrates queer scales and uses of bodily fluids through extended or improper uses as pathways towards caring multi-species relations within a damaged environment. From these narratives, we reflect on imagining generous collaborations for an openness towards unknowable possibilities and crafting different measures through the tensions of coinciding scales.
