Future Images of Careful Entanglements with Companion Species

What futures do we look into when it comes to the relationships between humans and other species? Can species extinction and the anthropocentric domination of other lives be reversed if humans learn to care for rather than to use the living with which they are so closely entangled?
Author
Design School Kolding
Year of publication
2020

In this catalogue of future images, a class of students from Design School Kolding’s Design for Planet master programme have acted as agents of change by speculating on futures of careful entanglements with companion species. The students have crafted imagined artefacts to make us think about how humans may live in engagements of curiosity and obligation and through their photos, they are seeking to give the speculative artefacts a materiality and presence that makes them more than mere statements or ideas. The photos invite caring speculations through bringing ambiguity and estrangement to the utilitarian attitude to the non-human, that for so long has prevailed. The catalogue also brings excerpts from the processes of engagement.

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