Labour Provenance as a Lens to Reveal More-Than-Human Ecologies in Biological Design and HCI

要旨

Efforts to integrate living organisms in the design of new technologies are often motivated by prospects of greater sustainability and increased connection with more-than-human worlds. In this paper, we critically discuss these motivations by analysing the vast and mostly hidden ecologies of more-than-human organisms implicated in a biodesign lab experiment. Through the lenses of labour theory, we investigate the extent to which organisms’ bodily functions and relationships can be subsumed into capitalist modes of production. In order to help reveal and map out the network of more-than-human contributors to biodesign, we develop a workshop method and a labour provenance analytical framework that identifies five types of more-than-human labourers, stretching from the centre to the periphery of biodesign. We conclude by discussing how sustainable approaches should account for wider more-than-human ecologies, and how the labour lens could help stress conflicting goals, implicit anthropocentric agendas and ways of improving organismal welfare in biological design and HCI.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Yuning Chen
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Elise Cachat
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Larissa Pschetz
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713272

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713272

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会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: More Than Human 2

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