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Entangled : Enhancing Salmon Kinship Networks Tomkins, Karen

Abstract

Our beliefs and stories about our place within the natural world have potent, profound and direct implications for the ways we individually and collectively impact the planet. Dominant cultural norms tell us that nature is subordinate to human and created explicitly for us. Human superiority goes largely unquestioned, allowing us to treat non-humans as “its,” mere resources to be exploited. Entangled explores ways of designing for interspecies co-authorship that fosters respect for and connection to our non-human kin through the relational networks of Pacific Salmon. Salmon are the iconic being that ties seascapes to landscapes and whose bodies serve as a foundation for the evolution of our temperate rainforests. Salmon impact many kin through their decaying bodies which rest in streams and forests along the coast. Entangled is a process by which human action is deployed as vector, offering Salmon’s carcass to the forests and streams in order to nourish tangled connections of kin.

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Title
Entangled : Enhancing Salmon Kinship Networks
Creator
Tomkins, Karen
Date Issued
2020-05
Description
Our beliefs and stories about our place within the natural world have potent, profound and direct implications for the ways we individually and collectively impact the planet. Dominant cultural norms tell us that nature is subordinate to human and created explicitly for us. Human superiority goes largely unquestioned, allowing us to treat non-humans as “its,” mere resources to be exploited. Entangled explores ways of designing for interspecies co-authorship that fosters respect for and connection to our non-human kin through the relational networks of Pacific Salmon. Salmon are the iconic being that ties seascapes to landscapes and whose bodies serve as a foundation for the evolution of our temperate rainforests. Salmon impact many kin through their decaying bodies which rest in streams and forests along the coast. Entangled is a process by which human action is deployed as vector, offering Salmon’s carcass to the forests and streams in order to nourish tangled connections of kin.
Subject
Salmon; Pacific Salmon; kinship; landscape architecture; relational design; non-human; other-than-human; agency; animism; animal carcasses; Musqueam Creek
Geographic Location
Northwest, Pacific; Vancouver (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. LARC 598
Date Available
2020-05-15
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0390883
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74479
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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