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Dulong, Nicole

Employed by contemporary lexicons to describe “a malevolent, impending doom of emissions”, the dominant narratives that surround carbon often centre just one molecule, carbon dioxide (Reed 2022). This myopic language of demonization has both distanced and distorted much of humanity's carbon comprehension while retrospectively legitimizing hierarchical individualism, outdated scientific ontologies, and extractive carbon control and marketization tactics. In understanding this, Embodied recognizes the need for a radical transformation in the thought systems that surround carbon consciousness, ultimately suggesting that a relational understanding of carbon as kin is essential to actualizing ethics of care in contemporary design practice and process. Bridging the Traditional Worldviews of Kinship with western epistemological underpinnings of somatic learning, Embodied responds to scholarship emphasizing the critical importance of “connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, sensuous, and local knowledges” to better understand carbon, relationality, awareness, and engagement (Bentz 2022). It looks to carbon as a muse, a teacher, a shapeshifter, and an architect of life itself, and investigates the various scales, acts, feelings, bodies, makings, insights, and processes that can dream us into carbon reciprocity as carbon-based life forms ourselves.

Graduating Project

eng

2023-05-11

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84640

UBCV

Graduate

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