Imagining More-Than-Human Communities

Imagine a community of humans and nonhumans. Who would it include? Animals? Robots? What are they doing? Working? Or playing? And who decides?

 This project explores ways of imagining a more equitable community of humans and nonhumans and how to make it a reality in our everyday lives. We believe that play and playfulness are key means of fostering interspecies communication and understanding. Combining humanities, engineering, and medical expertise in theories and practices of playful interaction with nonhumans our team will develop an interactive “playshop” format to develop awareness and ideas for how we can imagine and experience more-than-human communities.


What is this project about?

Project team:
Kári Driscoll (UU), Irene Kuling (TU/e), Bernice Bovenkerk, Clemens Driessen, Kathrin Thiele and Heidi Lesscher.

High-Five with a Non-Human

Betweter Festival Utrecht - Experiment High-Five with a Non-Human

On 29 September 2023, the Imagining More-than-Human Communities team ran an experiment at the Betweter Festival in Utrecht. Attendees were invited to explore a new haptic interface and imagine what it would mean to interact with a nonhuman entity remotely via the medium of technology. We asked participants to reflect on how technology can help us feel more connected with the nonhuman world.

 

Did you participate in the experiment? Or would you like to know more about the project’s future activities? Please leave your contact details via below link.

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Get into contact

If you want to know more about this project or come into contact with the researchers working on this, you can e-mail Kári Driscoll or Irene Kuling. Interested in who is working on this project? You can find all CUCo fellows on our fellow page.

Contact information:

Mail Kári Driscoll: K.Driscoll@uu.nl

Mail Irene Kuling: i.a.kuling@tue.nl