Commoning Human Waste as Preliminary Exploration into Enlivening Design

Markus Wernli

Commoning Human Waste as Preliminary Exploration into Enlivening Design

Research output: Unpublished conference presentation (presented paper, abstract, poster) › Conference presentation (not published in journal/proceeding/book) › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

Enlivening design is a novel concept where citizen-designers promote simultaneously
living organisms and revelatory ways of subjectivity development. Here the vital
tension of mutually asserting relationships, desirability, and freedom of choice can
help validate the technical and relational activities involved. This practice conjoins
citizen-designers and scientists around the ecological reintegration of metabolic
wastes and is aimed at bridging our prevalent nature-culture disconnect. The case
study presented explores the transpersonal dynamics behind accepting visceral
materiality and durational commitment which are little understood. This paper
introduces a theoretical and applied understanding of participation design that
embraces aliveness and outlines how in the face of complex issues creative potentials
can be unlocked.

Original language	English
Publication status	Not published / presented only - 4 Jun 2020
Event	PIVOT 2020: Designing a World of Many Centres: DRS Pluriversal Design SIG - Tulane University, New Orleans, United States Duration: 4 Jun 2020 → …

Conference

Conference	PIVOT 2020: Designing a World of Many Centres
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	4/06/20 → …

Keywords

Enlivening design
commoning
human urine
fermentation
Hong Kong

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2020. Paper presented at PIVOT 2020: Designing a World of Many Centres, New Orleans, United States.

Research output: Unpublished conference presentation (presented paper, abstract, poster) › Conference presentation (not published in journal/proceeding/book) › Academic research › peer-review

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