Overcrowded Ecologies: Designing Value through More-than-Human Factors

From domestic environments to urban systems, in current designing landscape human and non-human dynamics affect each other. Thanks to a descriptive case study methodology, the contribution aims at exploring emerging design coordinates in interaction design considering the ongoing computational disruption. Case studies show the interdependence of beings and things, here taken as a compass to cross the entangled complexity of overcrowded ecologies. Hence, the contribution benefits from the design-for-value approach to inquire hybrid ecologies and their impact on design practice, triggering a threefold space to design in/with: the addressee of design intervention, the materiality to design with, the temporality in which design intervenes. The three coordinates constitute a preliminary research framework, which might contribute in channeling designing efforts into the exploration of a new generation of value triggers in interaction design within the computational landscape.