Abstract
Design for Sustainability has expanded to systemic issues, now discussed alongside complex, comprehensive design theories. Designs for the Pluriverse, based on Transition Design, advocates an ontological shift from dualistic environmental perceptions. Unlike dualistic approaches, ontological designs focus on the "relationality" of building relationships between objects and things. This study aims to explore designs promoting relational understanding of materials from a Relational Ontology perspective. The authors try designing soil ontology in urban ecosystems, considering relationship building with soil in the median strip through dematerialization/rematerialization approaches. The study is grounded in ontological design's theoretical framework, emphasizing knowledge production through the design practice. The authors report on prototyping an interface for relational understanding and analyzing conversation transcripts from practitioners' interactive reflections.In the results presented, ontological design practice includes place-based activity, and discusses the possibility of contributing to a relational understanding of things that are difficult to deal with in stakeholder maps.
Keywords
Ontological design, Socio-technical systems, More-than-Human, materiality, Research through Design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.646
Citation
Onozato, T., Okuda, H.,and Mizuno, D.(2023) Ontological design approach for Alternative soil-human relations, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.646
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Ontological design approach for Alternative soil-human relations
Design for Sustainability has expanded to systemic issues, now discussed alongside complex, comprehensive design theories. Designs for the Pluriverse, based on Transition Design, advocates an ontological shift from dualistic environmental perceptions. Unlike dualistic approaches, ontological designs focus on the "relationality" of building relationships between objects and things. This study aims to explore designs promoting relational understanding of materials from a Relational Ontology perspective. The authors try designing soil ontology in urban ecosystems, considering relationship building with soil in the median strip through dematerialization/rematerialization approaches. The study is grounded in ontological design's theoretical framework, emphasizing knowledge production through the design practice. The authors report on prototyping an interface for relational understanding and analyzing conversation transcripts from practitioners' interactive reflections.In the results presented, ontological design practice includes place-based activity, and discusses the possibility of contributing to a relational understanding of things that are difficult to deal with in stakeholder maps.