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Biodiverse futures: Speculative design for community biodiversity activism
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Through a process of reflective design practice, this research explores the potential of Speculative Design to
addressing the global biodiversity crisis through
supporting Community Biodiversity Activism. It situates the biodiversity crisis as part of a wider monocultural Polycrisis in which Speculative Design itself is implicated, attracting criticism for a deficit of diversity of
practitioners, practice, outcomes and impact. It also
frames the Polycrisis as crisis of imagination: it has a Defuturing effect, making it difficult to imagine futures beyond a singular monocultural present. This Research
through Design inquiry is situated in these entangled
contexts as a form of Practice-Based Post-Qualitative Inquiry with an emergent methodology, predominantly
based around the techniques of Research Creation and
Design Experimentation. The inquiry draws on the Conceptual Figure of the Strange Stranger as a More than
Human guide to frame ways of future-making that oppose such a monocultural present; to explore how these ways of future-making could be materialised
through Speculative Design to support Community
Biodiversity Activism; to understand how they might transform Speculative Design and design research
practice; and to draw some general and speculative insights towards the emergence of a more biodiverse programme of Speculative Design.
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Speculative design More-than-human design Research through design Community activism Biodiversity