Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Forget Nature, Forget Humans: Redefining Our Approach to Biodiversity

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Ethnographers have an imperative to incorporate an environmental ethic into human-centered design projects for the well-being of nature and humans alike.

While human-centered approaches have enabled considerable progress to be made in the design of innovative and socially responsible solutions, they fail to take account of a decisive factor in maintaining our societies. Medicine, food, drinking water and breathable air…Biodiversity underpins many of the “services” that “nature” provides free of charge, and on which we are largely dependent. With biodiversity collapsing, how is it that we take so little account of it in our work? How can we include living non-humans in our investigations and creations?

Marc-Antoine is a trained anthropologist working at the intersection of design, social sciences and fiction.

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