Open Access
Pluriverse Skins DIY Bio-Production. For a Post-Anthropocentric Coexistence
Author(s) -
Chiara Scarpitti,
Francesca Valsecchi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
diid, disegno industriale industrial design/diid
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2785-2245
pISSN - 1594-8528
DOI - 10.30682/diid7521n
Subject(s) - anthropocentrism , creatures , posthuman , meaning (existential) , epistemology , sociology , fish <actinopterygii> , computer science , aesthetics , environmental ethics , ecology , natural (archaeology) , biology , art , philosophy , paleontology , fishery
By developing practice-based research, through critical and speculative design methodologies, we propose a definition of “skin” 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 “pluriverse skins” by experiments on bio-media and the relative speculative 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 biomaterials, by the means of practical and speculative investigation: in the paper we discuss how such an approach could contribute to reshaping the meaning of bio production, within the emerging post-anthropocentric paradigm.