期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2021
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：223-241
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2020.08.011
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThis paper reports on a collaborative, practice-based design research project focused on habitat restoration. An architect, a conservation biologist, and a digital designer worked together to develop an artificial habitat structure for an urban nature reserve in Canberra, Australia. Through a process of reflective analysis, we characterize this collaboration as a productive alliance of diverse skills and divergent perspectives that required responsiveness, improvisation, and a willingness to work outside disciplinary norms. We observe the importance of divergent but overlapping frames within the collaboration and design outcomes, which appropriated resources across contexts to serve multiple functions. In response, we propose a conceptual frame that draws on the concept ofexaptation—an evolutionary process in which existing forms acquire new adaptive functions—to account for this tendency. We argue that an exaptive perspective has value beyond this case study, offering a useful way to reframe contemporary design expertise and authorship while also enabling us to better address a more-than-human world.Highlights•We present a multidisciplinary design collaboration to create an artificial habitat structure.•Design collaboration can be a values-based alliance of divergent perspectives.•Responsiveness and improvisation are more important than discipline norms.•Exaptation: activation of potential across concurrent, divergent frames.
