A Nourishing Toolkit to the More-Than-Human
22 Ways to Design Differently Published by Set Margins’ publications.
By Ariel Sim. Foreword by Shawn Fleek. An accessible, practice-based toolkit to ecologically minded design, applicable across architecture, research, policy, education and community organizing Moving through theory, reflection and practice, this reader introduces more-than-human design as both mindset and method: a way of noticing interdependence, questioning inherited habits and learning to work with animals, plants, ecosystems and unseen systems as active participants rather than passive backdrops.
Structured as a practical yet poetic toolkit, the book offers 22 ways to design differently—through observation, embodiment, storytelling, speculative practice and collective accountability. From proxy interviews and adaptive prototyping to behavioral nudges and communal commitments to multispecies justice, each tool supports designers, researchers and changemakers in reshaping not just outcomes, but belief systems themselves.
Ariel Sim is a designer-researcher and community facilitator whose work unfurls at the intersections of care, culture, ecology and justice. She is the founder of Conscious Creator Inc. and Beyond Human-Centred Design.
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