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Bahareh Barati
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Multispecies Response-ability in More-than-human Design Practice
Fabulation with Tides
Conference paper
(2026)
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Jiwei Zhou, Raphael Kim, Iohanna Nicenboim, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Fernanda Soares Da Costa, Netta Ofer, Serena Pollastri, Heidi Biggs, Doenja Oogjes, Bahareh Barati
This workshop invites participants with diverse backgrounds to imagine stories with tides, to explore responseĝ€'ability - a notion used by Donna Haraway to cultivate the capacity to respond with other species. As more HCI communities begin to engage with living entities, we seek to move beyond "responsibility"as a solely human moral property towards relational and reciprocal ways of designing-with them. When the entities we "study"begin to respond to one another, their interactions evolve in ways we cannot fully predict, inviting design practice to stay open and caring for these shifting relations. Using tides as a spatialĝ€'temporal site of inquiry, we will use speculative fabulation to imagine what multispecies responseĝ€'ability might look like in place and collectively develop practical guides for examining and incorporating it into design practice.
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This workshop invites participants with diverse backgrounds to imagine stories with tides, to explore responseĝ€'ability - a notion used by Donna Haraway to cultivate the capacity to respond with other species. As more HCI communities begin to engage with living entities, we seek to move beyond "responsibility"as a solely human moral property towards relational and reciprocal ways of designing-with them. When the entities we "study"begin to respond to one another, their interactions evolve in ways we cannot fully predict, inviting design practice to stay open and caring for these shifting relations. Using tides as a spatialĝ€'temporal site of inquiry, we will use speculative fabulation to imagine what multispecies responseĝ€'ability might look like in place and collectively develop practical guides for examining and incorporating it into design practice.
Algae Alight
Exploring the Potential of Bioluminescence through Bio-Kinetic Pixels
Conference paper
(2024)
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Z. Breed, Peter Van Der Putten, Bahareh Barati
Incorporating living microorganisms in artifacts offers opportunities for novel modes of expression and interaction. Bioluminescent algae are unicellular microorganisms that produce light in response to kinetic stimuli and have been a focus of design and HCI research when exploring expressivity of living media. This study advances prior work using bioluminescent algae through designing and engineering a Living Light Interface comprising of bio-kinetic pixels. The resulting interactive system translates digital input into the biological domain by modulating the bioluminescent mechanism and creating different pixel states. The kinetic design of the vibration module uses adjustable weights to induce a wide range of lighting patterns. The hardware design is coupled with organism-centric algorithms, which allow for the generation of dynamic light patterns across the interface. The paper provides a comprehensive visual narrative of a design process that brings these living organisms to the forefront of our technological imagination, blurring the boundaries between biology, algorithmic control, and tangible interfaces.
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Incorporating living microorganisms in artifacts offers opportunities for novel modes of expression and interaction. Bioluminescent algae are unicellular microorganisms that produce light in response to kinetic stimuli and have been a focus of design and HCI research when exploring expressivity of living media. This study advances prior work using bioluminescent algae through designing and engineering a Living Light Interface comprising of bio-kinetic pixels. The resulting interactive system translates digital input into the biological domain by modulating the bioluminescent mechanism and creating different pixel states. The kinetic design of the vibration module uses adjustable weights to induce a wide range of lighting patterns. The hardware design is coupled with organism-centric algorithms, which allow for the generation of dynamic light patterns across the interface. The paper provides a comprehensive visual narrative of a design process that brings these living organisms to the forefront of our technological imagination, blurring the boundaries between biology, algorithmic control, and tangible interfaces.
Technological and economic opportunities, alongside the apparent ecological benefits, point to biodesign as a new industrial paradigm for the fabrication of products in the twenty-first century. The presented work studies plant roots as a biodesign material in the fabrication of self-supported 3D structures, where the biologically and digitally designed materials provide each other with structural stability. Taking a material-driven design approach, we present our systematic tinkering activities with plant roots to better understand and anticipate their responsive behaviour. These helped us to identify the key design parameters and advance the unique potential of plant roots to bind discrete porous structures. We illustrate this binding potential of plant roots with a hybrid 3D object, for which plant roots connect 600 computationally designed, optimized, and fabricated bioplastic beads into a low stool.
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Technological and economic opportunities, alongside the apparent ecological benefits, point to biodesign as a new industrial paradigm for the fabrication of products in the twenty-first century. The presented work studies plant roots as a biodesign material in the fabrication of self-supported 3D structures, where the biologically and digitally designed materials provide each other with structural stability. Taking a material-driven design approach, we present our systematic tinkering activities with plant roots to better understand and anticipate their responsive behaviour. These helped us to identify the key design parameters and advance the unique potential of plant roots to bind discrete porous structures. We illustrate this binding potential of plant roots with a hybrid 3D object, for which plant roots connect 600 computationally designed, optimized, and fabricated bioplastic beads into a low stool.