How can designers and artists meaningfully engage with more-than-human contexts? How do we avoid superficial conclusions and instead uncover situated relationships? How might we navigate the intricate entanglements of humans, non-human organisms, materials, technologies, and other phenomena without getting lost?
Tamara Lašič Jurković is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and teaching assistant. She works at the intersection of design theory, regeneration, and posthumanist perspectives. At PIFcamp, she will collaborate with Lovro Vehovar, a biologist, herbalist, and certified permaculture planner, to further develop a method for entanglement mapping. This method helps identify human and non-human entities within a specific context, analyze their interrelations, and visualize them. Such detailed mapping enables the discovery of challenges and opportunities for design and artistic interventions that would be overlooked by conventional design research methods.
Building on Arturo Escobar’s concept of relationality, Bruno Latour’s Actor-network theory and the principles of permaculture, Tamara and Lovro will explore the surroundings of PIFcamp, experiment with different approaches for investigating the more-than-human interrelations and hopefully gather some inspiring insights for future projects!