Fish Architecture – A framework to create Interspecies Spaces

Fish Architecture embraces the common spaces that we inhabit with aquatic animals. Here, we develop an approach to redesign these spaces as an interspecies collaboration. First, we should empathise with the non-human perspectives, while acknowledging limitations in understanding non-human perspectives of our mutual Umwelt. Next, we imagine new spaces that do not follow pre-existing human concepts. To achieve this in the framework of Fish Architecture, we merge the two disciplines art and science and apply their complementary methods to understand and imagine Interspecies Spaces. The Fishy Manifesto captures our process and explorations, as well as, offering a practical approach to coexistence. Fish Architecture is divided into three distinct phases, each offering room for observation and experimentation in different ecosystems. The third phase allows us to join aquatic and terrestrial life at the surface, paving a path to genuine ecological coexistence.

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Anja Wegner

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Alex Jordan

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Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 182-189

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[0001]Max Planck Institute

for Animal Behaviour

Radolfzell, Germany

[0002]Copenhagen, Denmark

[0003]Max Planck Institute

for Animal Behaviour

Radolfzell, Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.24

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] C. Darwin, 1996. The Origin of Species, ed. Gillian Beer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Volume 175, p. 177.

[2] R. L. Day, K. N. Laland & J. F. Odling-Smee, 2003. Rethinking adaptation: the niche-construction perspective. Perspectives in biology and medicine, Volume 46, pp. 80--95.

[3] J. Derrida, 1995. Points..: Interviews, 1974-1994. Stanford University Press.

[4] J. Derrida, 2008. The Animal That Therefore I am. Fordham University Press.

[5] V. Despret, 2004. The body we care for: Figures of anthropo-zoo-genesis. Body & Society, Volume 10, pp. 111--134.

[6] S. C. Doneyet al., 2012. Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. Annual review of marine science, Volume 4, pp. 11--37.

[7] B. S. Halpernet al., 2008. A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems. Science, 319(5865), pp. 948--952.

[8] D. Haraway, 2006. A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late 20th century. In: The international handbook of virtual learning environments. Springer, pp. 117--158.

[9] D. Haraway, 2013. When species meet. University of Minnesota Press.

[10] Heart of a dog. 2016. [Film] Directed by Laurie Anderson. United States.

[11] C. T. Ingraham, 2006. Architecture, animal, human: the asymmetrical condition. Routledge.

[12] J. Kaminskiet al., 2019. Evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs. National Acad Sciences, 116(29), pp. 14677--14681.

[13] W. Lengkeek, J. Coolen, A. Gittenberger & N. Schrieken, 2013. Ecological relevance of shipwrecks in the North Sea. Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen, Volume 41, pp. 49--57.

[14] B. Mason, M. Beard & M. W. Miller, 2011. Coral larvae settle at a higher frequency on red surfaces. Coral Reefs, Volume 30, pp. 667--676.

[15] T. Morton, 2010. The Dark Ecology of Elegy. In: The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy.

[16] T. Morton, 2010. The ecological thought. Harvard University Press.

[17] D. R. Rileyet al., 2013. Bacteria-human somatic cell lateral gene transfer is enriched in cancer samples. PLoS computational biology, 9(6), p. e1003107.

[18] R. Sender, S. Fuchs & R. Milo, 2016. Revised estimates for the number of human and bacteria cells in the body. PLoS biology, 14(8), p. e1002533.

[19] M. Shildrick, 2002. Embodying the monster: Encounters with the vulnerable self. Sage.

[20] P. Singer, 1973. Animal Liberation. Springer.

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