Transpecies Design
Design for a Posthumanist World
Transpecies Design
Design for a Posthumanist World
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Description
Transpecies design offers a new approach to regenerating the natural environment while honoring biodiversity. Rather than presenting the human experience as the goal of design, transpecies design takes the inextricable linkages connecting living things as both its starting point and end goal.
Adrian Parr is the Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon, UNESCO Chair of Water and Human Settlements, and a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. She is a philosopher, storyteller, and creative practitioner. She curated the Transpecies Design exhibition for the European Cultural Center’s, Space, Time, Existence 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and the Watershed Urbanism exhibition for the for 2021 ECC Venice Architecture Biennale. Her documentaries and art films have received numerous awards at independent film festivals around the world. She has published extensively on environmental culture and politics and her most recent book publication Earthlings (Columbia UP, 2022) earned a silver medal at the 2023 Nautilus Books Awards (environment category). Other publications include the trilogy: Birth of a New Earth (Columbia 2017), The Wrath of Capital (Columbia 2012), and Hijacking Sustainability (MIT Press, 2009). She is the editor, with Santiago Zabala, of the Outspoken series published with McGill University Press.
Michael Zaretsky AIA, is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture in the College of Design at the University of Oregon. Zaretsky is a licensed architect with extensive experience in local and international design/build projects. His research is focused around culturally and environmentally responsive public interest design projects and community engagement with underserved communities locally and internationally. His published work includes Precedents in Zero-Energy Design: Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon (Routledge Press, 2009) and New Directions in Sustainable Design, with Dr. Adrian Parr (Routledge Press, 2010). Zaretsky has articles published in several architectural journals and has presented at conferences around the world on Sustainability, Humanitarian Design, and Public Interest Design. His work is included in the 2018 book The Public Interest Design Education Guidebook edited by Bell and Abendroth. He is the Director of Design for the Roche Health Center in rural Tanzania, a project of Village Life Outreach Project. Roche Health Center is the first–ever permanent healthcare facility in this region. The Roche Health Center opened on April 1, 2011, and provides health care to as many as 20,000 villagers. The Roche Health Center was the winner of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Collaborative Practice Award in 2011 and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Award for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy in 2011 for the Roche Health Center project.