More-than-human data practices

Grounded in post-anthropocentric and post-humanist perspectives, this track explores more-than-human data practices that challenge dominant data paradigms and cultivate alternative modes of engagement with the world, from the microbial to the planetary. Rather than treating non-human life as objects of measurement and classification, as data subjects, the contributions in this track ask what it would mean to recognize organisms, systems, and processes as data co-producers, whose perceptual worlds, temporal rhythms, and relational entanglements actively participate in what counts as knowledge. This reorientation carries profound consequences for the designer. Co-producing data with more-than-human others is a political, epistemic, and ontological commitment that goes beyond inclusivity: it unsettles human authority, disrupts extractive infrastructures, and demands new forms of response-ability in how knowledge is gathered, represented, and put to use. If data has long spoken for the world, this track asks: how might it begin to listen?.