Decentering Design — Practice in a More-than- human World
ISBN 9789464775853
design and editing: Jurgen Maelfeyt
March 2025
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.
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 Ta˘na˘sescu, Dries Segers, and Jacopo Leveratto, among others.
With the support of the HOGENT PWO Research Fund.