Design especulativo como meio para provocar a sensibilidade quanto a interdependência entre humanos e árvores

Abstract

The ever-growing degradation of the plants' kingdom at the urban environment plus the acknowledgement of the role of design in potentially intensifying the Anthropocene’s crisis are the embryo of the present study, which aims at speculatively designing for trees - more-than-human actors - in order to provoke the perception of our interdependence in this scenario. It breeds strategic design methodologies with speculative design practices, in order to identify preferable characteristics to design for trees, understanding how to design new metaphors for perceiving interdependence so human can generate alternatives for detouring and managing the crisis; learning how to respect the particularities of nature's language, in a way that does not anthropomorphize what it is of each being; encouraging the understanding of the current's scenario emergence state. The metaproject development assumes experimental practices as study premises, using prototype co-creation, debates and other practices which transgress the traditional ways of designing. The change of perspective towards trees had as a result in design the development of a product line of five critical-speculative artifacts centered on more-than-human interests. The brand and its products aim to provoke human critical questioning about the future and the interdependence of species on the planet.