Plant-human entanglements in buildings: designing for care infrastructuring with office occupants and pot plants

IF 2.4 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS Frontiers in Computer Science Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI:10.3389/fcomp.2023.1233905
Susan Loh, Yasu Santo, Marcus Foth
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The current outsourcing of maintenance and the use of technological devices to automatically care for plants in buildings change the spatial experience between human office occupants and plants. This caretaker system distances people from plants, inclining us to regard them more as decorative objects. The relationship between humans and plants in a building is often unidirectional, with plants providing humans multiple benefits such as improved health and well-being, and increased worker productivity. In our human-plant interaction study, we developed a layer of care infrastructure within an office building that gives agency to people as a collective to interact with and take care of other non-human beings; that is, plants. In re-imagining mediated human-building interaction, we employed technology as an ambient mediator where people, plants and technology comprised the plant care system in a typical office building. A year-long design intervention was introduced within a typical office floor using artifacts (pots, shelves, and digital system) which we fabricated for the plants. From the results of an 8 week participation experiment together with data from qualitative interviews of 6 study participants, we identified five themes: Technology, Object/Thing, Infrastructuring, Commoning, and Care. Our analysis of these themes informs a care infrastructuring approach where both humans and plants become interdependent office co-inhabitants. By entangling with technology, care, and others, we present an infrastructuring layer to mediate human-building interactions with plants.
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建筑中的植物与人类的纠缠:为办公人员和盆栽植物设计护理基础设施
目前的维护外包和使用技术设备自动照顾建筑物中的植物,改变了人类办公室居住者和植物之间的空间体验。这种看护系统使人类与植物保持距离,使我们更倾向于将它们视为装饰品。在建筑中,人与植物之间的关系通常是单向的,植物为人类提供多种好处,如改善健康和福祉,提高工人的生产力。在我们的人类与植物互动研究中,我们在一栋办公楼内开发了一层护理基础设施,让人们作为一个集体与其他非人类互动并照顾他们;也就是植物。为了重新想象人与建筑之间的互动,我们采用技术作为环境中介,在一个典型的办公大楼中,人、植物和技术组成了植物护理系统。我们在一个典型的办公楼层中引入了长达一年的设计干预,使用了我们为植物制造的人工制品(花盆、架子和数字系统)。从为期8周的参与实验结果以及对6名研究参与者的定性访谈数据中,我们确定了五个主题:技术、对象/事物、基础设施、共性和关怀。我们对这些主题的分析揭示了一种关怀基础设施的方法,在这种方法中,人类和植物成为相互依存的办公室共同居民。通过与技术、关怀和其他因素的纠缠,我们提出了一个基础设施层,以调解人类与植物的互动。
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Frontiers in Computer Science
Frontiers in Computer Science COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-
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