Co-Habitation

The escalating dynamics of world population combined with environmental degradation through expansive urban processes increases the urgency to protect biodiversity. Cohabitation advocates a design that goes beyond anthropocentrism and understands humans and non-humans as equal participants in a shared habitat and environment. In cohabitation, design becomes a means to promote coexistence and communication between species and dissolve the separation between pristine nature and the built environment. With this paradigm shift, human-centred architectural boundaries are dissolved by recognising non-human needs, perspectives and desires.

Literatuur:
Anna Tsing, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, North Yorkshire 2017
Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, London 2000
Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford 2005