Design Beyond the Human

Connecting relevant dots in an emerging transdisciplinary discourse - both well-known positions and weak signals. The broad disciplinary nature of this book allows and encourages thinking and exploration of design for social, ecological, and political transformations. It could become a compass for entering uncharted territory for Humanity! * Philipp Heidkamp, Köln International School of Design, Germany *

Elio Caccavale is a Designer and Design Researcher at the Glasgow School of Art, UK, exploring human-non-human relations, and visual and three-dimensional collaborative design vocabularies for thinking about ethical and social issues in the sciences and technology. He has authored chapters in numerous books, including Design as Future-Making published by Bloomsbury, a book which explores how design draws on and informs disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science and psychology.

Professor Gordon Hush is Head of the Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art, UK. He is a Sociologist, with an interest in the way that design-led innovation initiates and accelerates social, economic and ecological change. He is keen to explore the ways in which scientific or technological expertise are incorporated within or applied to the material circumstances and design outcomes which inform human experience, and the consequences that these have for life on the planet.