PAD: Post Anthropocentric Design
“We believe that through collaborative efforts, designers, researchers, and policy makers can effectively explore the evolutionary opportunities that arise from ecosystem changes for various species and habitats.”
Team: Dr Danielle Barrios-O'Neill, Dr Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Michal Pauzner, Oded Kutok, Olga Stadnuk, Laura Dudek and Ginosar Wolf Hans
Post-Anthropocentric Design (PAD) is a method that creatively and imaginatively engages people with complex problems and systems while training them to explore more-than-human perspectives. PAD is formed by a team of researchers, designers, and educators from the Royal College of Art in London and Shenkar College of Engineering, Art and Design in Tel Aviv, who have been collaborating since 2020.
PAD enables individuals and groups to internalize nature’s perspective, imagine new possibilities for nature during and after the climate crisis, decode the meanings of these possibilities and communicate them to the public, educators, experts, and decision-makers.
PAD is a research laboratory and creative workshop designed to explore the era after the Anthropocene and the possibilities for its contemporary realization. It employs strategy, design and gamification elements for speculating about and predicting nature with a lesser to no human dominance. It develops and operates mechanisms for changing human-centered perspectives.
