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221Respect for Old Age and Dignity in Death: The Case of Urban TreesProceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures. 2020.How can humanist principles of respect, dignity, and care inform and improve design for non-human lifeforms? This paper uses ageing and dying urban trees to understand how architectural, urban, and landscape design respond to nonhuman concerns. It draws on research in plant sciences, environmental history, ethics, environmental management, and urban design to ask: how can more-than-human ethics improve multispecies cohabitation in urban forests? The paper hypothesises that concepts of dignity an…Read more
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245Towards More-than-Human Heritage: Arboreal Habitats as a Challenge for Heritage PreservationBuilt Heritage 4 (4): 1-17. 2020.Trees belong to humanity’s heritage, but they are more than that. Their loss, through catastrophic fires or under business-as-usual, is devastating to many forms of life. Moved by this fact, we begin with an assertion that heritage can have an active role in the design of future places. Written from within the field of architecture, this article focuses on structures that house life. Habitat features of trees and artificial replacement habitats for arboreal wildlife serve as concrete examples. D…Read more
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354Notes on More-than-Human ArchitectureIn Gretchen Coombs, Andrew McNamara & Gavin Sade (eds.), Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design, Routledge. pp. 24-37. 2018.What can the creation of artificial habitats to replace old-growth forests tell us about the process, value and future of design? This chapter takes a concrete and provocative example and uses it to rethink design as a gradual, ecological action. To illustrate this understanding, the chapter begins with a description of a proposal to provide artificial habitats for wild animals such as birds, bats and invertebrates. The controversial idea to replace rapidly disappearing old-growth trees with art…Read more
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465Field Creativity and Post-AnthropocentrismDigital Creativity 27 (1): 7-23. 2016.Can matter, things, nonhuman organisms, technologies, tools and machines, biota or institutions be seen as creative? How does such creativity reposition the visionary activities of humans? This article is an elaboration of such questions as well as an attempt at a partial response. It was written as an editorial for the special issue of the Digital Creativity journal that interrogates the conception of Post-Anthropocentric Creativity. However, the text below is a rather unconventional editorial.…Read more
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University of MelbourneRegular Faculty
The University of Cambridge
Alumnus, 2009
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
Ecology and Conservation Biology |
Environmental Philosophy |