Why we cannot but call ourselves terrestrials

摘要

The pandemic catastrophe has forced us to reconsider all the certainties that made up the limits of our vision as designers. The emergency, with its mandatory changes, made us reflect on alternative visions requiring us to rethink, expand, edit, change the historical and cultural legacy with which we speak of design. "Other voices" was thus born: a series of short interventions attempting to redefine the limits as regards the great transformation of what surrounds us. Everything is connected. The crisis made us realise we are part of a system. It tangibly materialised it. According to Bruno Latour (Down to Earth, 2018), we live in a new climate regime where we can no longer see the world and its resources (biological and inorganic) as an inert object that can be exploited without limit: nature demands its own "agency", which it manifests through the phenomena emerging from the climate crisis. Laissez-faire deregulation, the myth of markets and technologies as the solution to all things have created forms of non-inclusive globalisation.