Designing Temporal Ecologies : A New Framework for More-Than-Human Worlds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pschetz, Larissa.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2026.

Summary:

Explores how design can redefine notions of ecological time.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction to Designing Temporal Ecologies

Looking at time as more-than-human acts of coordination

Towards designing (more inclusive) temporal ecologies

Relating, reconciling and rethinking design's mediation of more-than-human times

Notes

References

Part One Relating to More-than-Human Times

2 Encountering More-than-Human Time: Expanding Temporal Perspectives through Walking and Fabulating with my Grandfather's Herbarium

Pages of my herbarium (so far)

Repertoires for relating to more-than-human temporalities

Closing words

3 Reframing the Colours of the Season: Counteracting Temporal Insensitivity through Incorporation of Local Ecologies of Textile Dyeing

A troubling present: ultra-fast fashion

An alternative present: local foraging of dyestuff

Concluding discussion: towards more-than-human futures

4 Expanding More-than-Human Care Time: Rivers as Teachers and Carriers

Some words on method

Perspectives

The river as focal point

What we might learn from the flood

Conclusion

5 Dúthchas in Soaking Ecologies: Making Home Temporally in the Outer Hebrides

Invitation to surrendering to sponginess

Mitwelt walking

Barefoot walking the moorlands - shielings, bogs and faeries

Thatching dwelling with dunelands - marram, wind and machair

Conclusion: dwelling in dúthchas with temporal terrains

6 Foregrounding Multiple Temporalities through Sketching and Fabulating: Reimagining the Tagus Riverfront

Noticing and foregrounding temporalities at work

1. Inspiration

2. Figuration - sketching and noticing.

3. Temporal reflections

4. Affirmative fabulating

In closing . . .

Part Two Reconciling Conflicting Temporalities

7 Designing within Dischronotopic Land-Based Ecologies: Drinking Camomile in Palestine

Dis/chronotopia

Land-based ecologies

Designing within dischronotopic land-based ecologies

Attuning to dischrononotopia

8 Weaving Times: Reconciling Temporalities through the Creation of an Indigenous Art Catalogue

Introduction

Setting up the scene: photography workshops

Conducting fieldwork in the Capoto Jarina Indigenous Land, Brazil

The Catalogue

Weaving Times

9 Caring for the Land: Where Coexistent, Intersecting Temporalities Meet

Prologue

Caring for the country, caring for the land

Caring for a disturbed country

Caring for the country through fungi

Coexisting and persisting rhythms in more-than-human care

Epilogue: the recalling of a living past

10 Exploring the Multiple Temporal Modes of Data Visceralization: Emotional Charts for Situated Beings

Quick answers for hurried readers: objectivity and efficiency within narratives of acceleration

Emotional charts for situated beings: exploring multiple temporal modes of data visceralization

Macromicroscope: shifting scales in a heating world

Part Three Rethinking Mediation of More-than-Human Times

11 Experimenting among More-than-Human Temporalities: Surrendering to Garden Bee Ecology

Yuta's design journey - negotiating with the garden

Introducing red mason bees

Building your house while hearing you buzz

How to make pottery with bees

Continued attempts and experiments

Reflections on temporal ecologies

Alternative role of technology?.

Process and dynamics of designing-with the garden

Note

12 Navigating Temporal Dialogues through Material Ecologies: From Ocean Plastics to Microbial Architecture

Temporal rhythms of making and becoming

Microbial temporalities of transformation and decay

Conclusion: towards a plurality of temporal perspectives

13 Orchestrating Temporal Ecologies of Decay: Collaboratively Fabricating with Biodegradation and Regeneration

Cyclical temporalities of biodegradation and regeneration

Collaboratively fabricating with biodegradation

Reflecting on the situated temporalities of biodegradation

14 Mapping More-than-Human Temporal Provenance: Ghost Temporalities in Biodesign

Golden Gate Assembly protocol: two temporal lenses

Journeys from deep temporal ecologies

Honouring the ghosts

Closing Words

15 A New Temporal Framework for More-than-Human Worlds

Index.

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ISBN:

9781350522305

OCLC:

1593995638