Abstract
This paper examines the interplay between non-human rights and posthuman governance, delving into how Speculative Design practice of Legislative Fictioneering and symbiotic scenario-building enables us to provotype alternative social contracts and the dwelling politics of 'cross-species symbiosis lives.' Within the framework of dec on str acting of technological determinism, the proposed project, 'Cross-species Symbiosis Lives' employs provotypes to augment tangible Legislative Fictioneering, material science, and embedded governance approaches that acknowledge non-human agency and legal personhood position from a futurological perspective. Notably, the paper critically analyzes the neoliberal tendencies within Speculative Design, which tend to privatize legal imagination and reduce systemic justice to mere design challenges. The conclusion underscores the imperative for Speculative Design to confront its neoliberal complicity and transition towards ethical and epistemological infrastructures that support multispecies sustainability. Dueto word count constraints, this paper only excerpts two chapters from the original paper.
Keywords
Non-humanrights; Posthumangovernance; Cross-speciessymbiosis; Legislativefictioneering
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.568
Citation
Sun, W.(2025) Non-human Rights and Posthuman Governance: How Speculative Design Simulate the Dwelling Politics of 'Cross-species symbiosis lives'?, in Chang, C.-Y., and Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.568
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Track 3 - Design, Art & Technology
Non-human Rights and Posthuman Governance: How Speculative Design Simulate the Dwelling Politics of 'Cross-species symbiosis lives'?
This paper examines the interplay between non-human rights and posthuman governance, delving into how Speculative Design practice of Legislative Fictioneering and symbiotic scenario-building enables us to provotype alternative social contracts and the dwelling politics of 'cross-species symbiosis lives.' Within the framework of dec on str acting of technological determinism, the proposed project, 'Cross-species Symbiosis Lives' employs provotypes to augment tangible Legislative Fictioneering, material science, and embedded governance approaches that acknowledge non-human agency and legal personhood position from a futurological perspective. Notably, the paper critically analyzes the neoliberal tendencies within Speculative Design, which tend to privatize legal imagination and reduce systemic justice to mere design challenges. The conclusion underscores the imperative for Speculative Design to confront its neoliberal complicity and transition towards ethical and epistemological infrastructures that support multispecies sustainability. Dueto word count constraints, this paper only excerpts two chapters from the original paper.