Artefacts as Pedagogy for Futuring

Bertmark, Anna My (2025) Artefacts as Pedagogy for Futuring. In: TEI '25: Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction :. ACM, New York, 120:1-120:9. ISBN 9798400711978

Abstract

This PhD explores the potential of interactive artefacts as tangible pedagogy for generating perspective shifts towards ecocentric thinking and doing. Research has highlighted how deliberate societal transformative change is required to reach the targets of sustainability goals and how perspective shifts for instigating these changes may be supported and achieved. The research investigates how design and HCI seek to challenge anthropocentric approaches and perspectives, motivated by the growing number of works in technology for the more-than-human and feminist post-humanism. Speculative, more-than-human design and sustainable HCI highlight ecosystem interdependence through transmedia narratives and interactive ecocentric artefacts. However, their inaccessibility and unexplored impact limit their potential to bridge the knowledge-action gap for local development to stay within necessary earth-system boundaries. This paper emphasises the necessity for perceiving how interactive artefacts generate epistemological and ontological shifts and how this may be utilised to advise future design towards ethics of care and regenerative development.