Date: 22 January 20-24 | Location: Campus Bovisa. Via Candiani 72 20158 MILANO, Italy
How can we imagine and design more-than-human bodies that adapt to climate change? Last January, we wrapped up our "More-than-human AI" design studio at Politecnico di Milano! Over the course of a full semester, 55 students explored the role of AI in post-extractive, regenerative ecologies, envisioning resilient climate futures. Their work resulted in 11 interactive installations that merge more-than-human design with speculative AI prototyping.
This year's design brief was about resilient climate futures. Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge, not just for humans but for the intricate web of life we are part of. Traditional design approaches often reinforce the separation between humans and the more-than-human world, neglecting the entangled relationships that sustain life. To address this complex socio-technical challenge, we must reimagine these connections. By engaging with and designing through more-than-human bodies as a relational design concept, students were invited to cultivate a regenerative future, one that nurtures more balanced and symbiotic relationships among human and nonhuman beings.
For this, students developed sensibilities and tactics for more-than-human city making, rewilding perception, and multispecies governance.