Dezembro 2021 vol. 9 num. 5 - 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Safe Harbours for Design Research

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No Man’s Land / Everyone’s Land: Designing Processes for Enacting More-Than-Human Worlds. The Case of Bagnoli.

No Man’s Land / Everyone’s Land: Designing Processes for Enacting More-Than-Human Worlds. The Case of Bagnoli.

Gatto, Gionata ; Cadamuro, Alessia ;

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This paper addresses the theme of brownfields, the actors, processes and materialities that constitute them, and the role design could play in re-defining their identities. The objective is to explore opportunities to deploy design to initiate a transformation of those places, through public engagement activities involving human and other-than-human agents. The work considers one case study, which involves a workshop with scientists, a brownfield on the outskirts of Naples (IT) and a geo-speculative account of its morphological settings. Building on the assumption that the site under question is culturally -not just materially contaminated, our argument is that other-than-human participation could provide more sustainable routes compared to traditional soil restoration methods. The results advance design opportunities for destabilizing the public perception of the site, suggesting at the same time an alternative notion of de-contamination, which consider the environment beyond technical lenses, accounting for the socio-cultural readings through which it is mediated to local communities.

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This paper addresses the theme of brownfields, the actors, processes and materialities that constitute them, and the role design could play in re-defining their identities. The objective is to explore opportunities to deploy design to initiate a transformation of those places, through public engagement activities involving human and other-than-human agents. The work considers one case study, which involves a workshop with scientists, a brownfield on the outskirts of Naples (IT) and a geo-speculative account of its morphological settings. Building on the assumption that the site under question is culturally -not just materially contaminated, our argument is that other-than-human participation could provide more sustainable routes compared to traditional soil restoration methods. The results advance design opportunities for destabilizing the public perception of the site, suggesting at the same time an alternative notion of de-contamination, which consider the environment beyond technical lenses, accounting for the socio-cultural readings through which it is mediated to local communities.

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Palavras-chave: contamination, more-than-human, participatory speculative design, design activism,

Palavras-chave: contamination, more-than-human, participatory speculative design, design activism,

DOI: 10.5151/ead2021-170

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Gatto, Gionata; Cadamuro, Alessia; "No Man’s Land / Everyone’s Land: Designing Processes for Enacting More-Than-Human Worlds. The Case of Bagnoli. ", p. 278-290 . In: 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Safe Harbours for Design Research. São Paulo: Blucher, 2021.
ISSN 2318-6968, DOI 10.5151/ead2021-170

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