Decentering Design

Decentering Design explores more-than-human theory and practice in the context of design. Through our projects - design, artistic and research - we question the worldview as we know it and offer insights, outlooks and strategies to design for a more equitable world.

This book is an invitation to journey beyond humancentric thinking and into the more-than-human world. By merging theory with practice, it offers strategies, insights, and exercises that cultivate a deeper sensitivity to the interconnected more-than-human community we form with all living beings. 

Whether you’re an artist seeking new creative possibilities, or a designer rethinking your relationship with your surroundings, this book will guide you towards a richer, more entangled way of seeing and making.

With diverse contributions by architects, landscape architects, product- and interaction designers, artists, photographers, philosophers, academics, curators, policy makers and policy officers. Contributions include FormaFantasma, Superflux, Eva Meijer, Clemens Driessen, Mihnea Tanasescu, Dries Segers, Jacopo Leveratto, among others.

Decentering Design – Practice in a More-than-human World is an artistic research project by Bert De Roo, Giliam Ganzevles, Mirte van Aalst and Glenn Deliège at the ‘Futures through Design’ research centre of Kask, School of Arts in Ghent.