Implozje kultury i natury. O projektowaniu wraz z przyrodą
Implosions of culture and nature. On co-designing with the natural environment

Summary/Abstract: The problem of the climate crisis is being analysed within a variety of scientifi c disci-plines, and its complexity is prompting researchers to blur conceptual boundaries and strive forinterdisciplinary research. This gives rise to ontological considerations, as it addresses, among otherthings, the now well-established nature-culture dualism. Numerous polemics against its validity arebased on the need for cultural studies, and humanities in general, to move out of an anthropocentricorientation. The creation of hybrid terms like ‘natureculture’ aims to build a new vocabulary andbottom-up methodologies that respond to new challenges. Is there a chance to fi nd in StanislawPietraszko’s binary theory of culture a gateway to transcend dualisms and search for the intertwiningof the human and the non-human? In this text I seek an answer to this question, and point to thetheoretical basis for developing possible narratives about the world after the Anthropocene. Thesestories situate at their centre adventitious relations that happen between species. I present examplesof these through an analysis of three unique activities in which male and female designers collab-orate with nature: animate and inanimate. Their practices transcend anthropocentric boundariesand inspire new ways of living.

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