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Richard Fadok posted an update
I wrote an open access article about teaching multispecies design that I thought might be of interest to this group.
escholarship.org
The Multispecies Metropolis: Anthropological Ruminations on Bestial Urbanism
Author(s): Fadok, Richard Alexander | Abstract: Human-animal co-habitation is a fact of urban existence, yet animals are illegible in the contemporary American city. As climate change, development, and other planetary forces disturb the more-than-human dynamics of cities, often gravely, anthropological … Continue reading
Jessie Croteau, Alfie Chambers and Michael Degani6 Comments-
This is great Richard, such a nice synthesis of a lot of literature—the mark of any great course.
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Thanks, Michael. I hoped to create a resource for others.
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Interesting. We talked about artificial lighting and bird-window collisions, but this is news to me. I’ll save it for the next iteration. Thanks!
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I’m definitely now seeing these kinds of issues pop up everywhere. In my old neighborhood in Baltimore there is a campaign to get an old book bindery designated as a historic site because its a key site for roosting chimney swifts. But more broadly I think this opens up so many issues about design, perception and affordances that anthro should be paying attention to. Again, glad to see and really useful to have the piece consolidate those themes.
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Exactly! Affordances became a key word in the course; next time I’ll dedicate more time at the beginning to it. Thanks for informing me about swifts in Baltimore. I just heard a fascinating talk at 4S/EASST about swift conservation in Belgium and the history of nest boxes.
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