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More Than Human Design

The term More-than-Human appears to originate in the field of cultural geography where it has been employed to promote a shift from largely anthropocentric perspectives to one that acknowledges our relationships to and within complex ecological assemblages. Whilst acknowledging the importance of anthropological derived considerations Imagination scholars has established a framing that has its origins in contemporary considerations of Object-Oriented philosophies. In particular a key driver is the use of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), and principally its rejection of correlationism (the notion that human minds and bodies are not the only actants worth countenancing). Through OOO, a flat ontology perspective is adopted where all human and non-human actants – people, objects and the natural world – exist equally within a particular assemblage but without the consideration they are all equal. We practice a form of metaphysical carpentry through the creation or authoring of artifacts, systems or objects that – explain how things make their world.

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