动物与当代建筑和设计

Animals in Contemporary Architecture and Design

动物和设计有什么关系?设计师是如何看待、关怀和使用动物的?我们在文中分析了一系列以动物为主要特征的设计项目,定义了人与动物研究(HAS)领域和设计研究领域之间的交叉地带,并探讨了动物或动物性在设计中的广义社会价值。首先,我们回顾了涉及这两个领域之间交叠范畴的文献。其次,我们探讨了对若干著名设计博客网站上的动物设计项目进行雪球式调查的结果。我们认为设计师特别关注的动物种类、动物设计类型标准化进程,以及在设计圈内广为传播的设计项目,都揭示了设计师的若干文化盲点和偏见。最后,文章提出了动物设计策略如何凸显与通过调动认知、行为和渴望作为技术实践实现功能目的相关的广义社会转型过程。文章认为设计研究作为跨审美领域和技术实践领域的综合,不仅对人类和动物的关系具有见解独到的洞察,对技艺和技术的研究也同样如此。而本文提出这个观点则是为了帮助设计研究领域建立更宏大的框架,同时也有助于人类与非人类动物之间形成更宽泛的关系。

What are animals doing in design？ How do designers see, care for, and use animals？ In this paper we analyse an array of design projects featuring animals, identifying intersections between human-animal studies （HAS） and design studies, and discussing the broader social significance of the figure of the animal or animality in design. First, it reviews the literature at this convergence between these two fields. Next, it discusses the results of our snowball survey of animal design projects across several prominent design blogs. We consider the distribution of attention designers delegate to certain animals, the standardisation of certain animal designs, and which designs circulate in the design public sphere, revealing cultural blind spots and biases of designers. Finally, this paper asks how animal design tactics highlight broader social transformations related to the mobilisation of perception, behaviour and desire as technical practices with functional outcomes. This paper argues that the study of design as a hybrid aesthetic and technical practice yields unique insights both into studies of techniques and technology as well as human-animal relations. This paper proposes such a view helps frame both studies of design as well as human relations with nonhuman animals more broadly.