Abstract
Guided by a deliberate undoing of design’s attachment to acceleration and forward progression, this theme track sets out to advance a practice of epistemic reuse, aiming to cultivate spaces for reflection, hesitation, and generative reuse. Returning and circling back to a previous proposition is not to be confused with trying to resurrect the past. Instead, it suggests the demand to insist on the value of remaining with unresolved tensions, feminist figurations and the complex entanglements of more-than-human worlds. The contributions to this track, in various ways, support the shift in attention from heroic innovation toward more careful, situated engagements by embracing planetary excesses and opening sensibilities towards that which exceeds us and that which cannot be fully designed.
Keywords
Epistemic reuse; post-anthropocentric design; doing and undoing; more-than-human entanglements
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.174
Citation
Lenskjold, T., Jönsson, L., Wilke, A., Hermansen, P., Forlano, L., Tironi, M., and Olander, S. (2026) Restaging Doing and Undoing Post-Anthropocentric Design, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.174
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Restaging Doing and Undoing Post-Anthropocentric Design
Guided by a deliberate undoing of design’s attachment to acceleration and forward progression, this theme track sets out to advance a practice of epistemic reuse, aiming to cultivate spaces for reflection, hesitation, and generative reuse. Returning and circling back to a previous proposition is not to be confused with trying to resurrect the past. Instead, it suggests the demand to insist on the value of remaining with unresolved tensions, feminist figurations and the complex entanglements of more-than-human worlds. The contributions to this track, in various ways, support the shift in attention from heroic innovation toward more careful, situated engagements by embracing planetary excesses and opening sensibilities towards that which exceeds us and that which cannot be fully designed.