Toward Interspecies Art and Design Prosthetic Habitat-Structures in Human-Owl Cultures

MIT PRESS 2022-08-01

Urbanization severely reduces opportunities for nonhuman habitation and undermines nonhuman subjectivities, aesthetic experiences, behaviors, traditions, and cultures. In response, humans need to reimagine cities as places for interspecies cohabitation. In this article, a team of architects and ecologists demonstrates that such reimagination depends on the cultural behaviors of multiple species. The authors illustrate the implications of this dependence by designing and discussing nesting structures for the powerful owl (Ninox strenua). The project shows that prosthetic habitats can serve as useful provocation for thinking about interspecies cultures. The authors use this work to propose productive avenues for further research.

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Parker, D., Roudavski, S., Isaac, B. & Bradsworth, N. (2022). Toward Interspecies Art and Design Prosthetic Habitat-Structures in Human-Owl Cultures. LEONARDO, 55 (4), pp.351-356. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02224.
10.1162/leon_a_02224
1530-9282
0024-094X
1397538605

UNIV OF MELBOURNE
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