This workshop challenges participants to revisit their own design processes and expose the often-unseen assumptions of human-centred thinking. By isolating key steps from existing projects and reframing them through a more-than-human lens, students will experiment with translating abstract shifts in perspective into concrete exercises. The aim is not only to recognise where plants, animals, and ecological systems already shape design, but to develop new practices that foreground their agency, creating exercises that reconfigure responsibility, care, and collaboration across species.

Ganzevles Giliam (NL) graduated as graphic designer from ArtEZ Arnhem and is currently based in Brussels. His work ranges across art, design and technology, with a research emphasis on more-than-human design and AI in design processes, at the Howest University of Applied Sciences. As a member of the Disobedient Practices research group, he investigates the convergence of more-than-human perspectives and AI through artistic research. In addition to his academic work, he serves as the creative director at the Amsterdam-based studio Awe. He is co-author of the publication Decentering Design - Practice in a More-than-human World (2025).

Ganzevles Giliam

De Roo, Bert

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE FOR MORE-THAN-HUMAN PERSPECTIVES IN DESIGN

De Roo, Bert (Belgium) graduated as an architect from UGent, Belgium, and has been working as freelance architect since 2015, engaging in both self-initiated projects and collaborations with various Ghent-based offices. He is a researcher at HOGENT Howest, within FtD and the Disobient Practices research group. His work spans a variety of projects focusing on historic estates and more-than-human design. For this last he currently explores strategies for designers to engage socio-ecological communities. He is co-author of the publication Decentering Design - Practice in a More-than-human World (2025).

Publication "Decentering Design — Practice in a More-Than-Human World"

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