Abstract
This Laboratorio de Futuros held in Mar del Plata (Argentina), brought together architecture and design professors and master’s students from Argentina, Chile, and Colombia to explore an Epimethean approach to design—acting after rather than ahead of action, embracing delay, reflection, and care. Rooted in voices and material practices from the Global South, participants engaged in embodied exercises fostering inter-learning through reciprocity and complementarity. We explored the territory holistically with our whole bodies, attuning to wind, sand, sea, and insects, and reframing design as the enactment of relational infrastructures through affective attunement and planetary excesses. Our bodies became sensors, registering the relational texture of the shared environment. As speculative outcomes, we collectively imagined temporary and affective structures that challenge anthropocentric and disciplinary boundaries—Radical Pavilions for interspecies coexistence and cosmopolitical encounters. Through gestures of unmaking and care, the workshop positioned design as a situated, reparative practice that weaves futures of shared dwelling.
Keywords
more‑than‑human prototyping, relational infrastructures, multispecies coexistence, embodied pedagogy, unmaking
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1611
Citation
Sánchez-Aldana, E., Novik, L., and Hermansen, P. (2026) Winds, Sand, Companions, humans: Attuning bodies for post-antropocentric Worlds, 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.2026.1611
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Winds, Sand, Companions, humans: Attuning bodies for post-antropocentric Worlds
This Laboratorio de Futuros held in Mar del Plata (Argentina), brought together architecture and design professors and master’s students from Argentina, Chile, and Colombia to explore an Epimethean approach to design—acting after rather than ahead of action, embracing delay, reflection, and care. Rooted in voices and material practices from the Global South, participants engaged in embodied exercises fostering inter-learning through reciprocity and complementarity. We explored the territory holistically with our whole bodies, attuning to wind, sand, sea, and insects, and reframing design as the enactment of relational infrastructures through affective attunement and planetary excesses. Our bodies became sensors, registering the relational texture of the shared environment. As speculative outcomes, we collectively imagined temporary and affective structures that challenge anthropocentric and disciplinary boundaries—Radical Pavilions for interspecies coexistence and cosmopolitical encounters. Through gestures of unmaking and care, the workshop positioned design as a situated, reparative practice that weaves futures of shared dwelling.