{"id":1593,"date":"2023-01-09T18:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T10:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecology.shanghai-visual.org\/web\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2023-02-06T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:33:18","slug":"paper-pluriverse-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecology.shanghai-visual.org\/web\/paper-pluriverse-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluriverse Skins: DIY Bio-Production for a Post-Anthropocentric Coexistence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chiara Scarpitti, Francesca Valsecchi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By developing practice-based research, through critical and speculative design methodologies, we propose a definition of \u201cskin\u201d not as a univocal boundary of subjective bodies (animal, plants, or other creatures), but as a pluriverse membrane of connection across and between species. Deeply inspired by holistic and posthuman philosophical approaches (such as Braidotti, Pannikar, Escobar, Coccia), the ongoing research feeds such a definition of \u201cpluriverse skins\u201d by experiments on bio-media and the relative spec-ulative scenarios. We present three aspects of the study: a) preliminary reflection about how design is affected and transformed by ecological notions; b) design experiments in bio-media to create skins that can unfold as the carrier of new forms of ecological awareness; c) discussion about the aesthetic of bioskins and implication for the notion of a new post-anthropocentrism at large.Pluriverse Skins offers an alternative look into bio-materials, by the means of practical and speculative inves-tigation: in the paper we discuss how such an approach could contribute to reshaping the meaning of bio production, within the emerging post-anthropocentric paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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