Designing Temporal Ecologies

A New Framework for More-than-Human Worlds
Explores how design can redefine notions of ecological time.

Bringing together a collection of methodological and practical studies, this volume explores how design could define more equal notions of ecological time. It provides a new framework for environmental design practice that departs from a critique of the separation between human and other-than-human times, moving towards entangled multispecies temporalities.

In Western industrialised societies, the times of humans and of the natural world are often considered as belonging to different realms. While human life is regarded as progressive and accelerated, other species are described as following timescales that are cyclical and slow-changing. Highlighting the problematic nature of this conceptual division, which reinforces the disruptive impact of anthropogenic action, a team of design scholars and practitioners identif