Designing Multispecies Bodies and Care / Corpi multispecie e cura nel progetto

Key players of our lives during and after the pandemic, the body and care have invaded domestic and public space with their presence and absence. As meaningful domains of inquiry and experimentation, design culture is increasingly interested in their dynamics of evolution. However, the questioning of an anthropocentric view is leading to overcoming the dominance of the human body, delineating new alliances (Haraway, 2016, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene), posthuman horizons (Braidotti, 2013, The Posthuman), and multispecies coexistence (Tsing, 2015, The Mushroom at the End of the World). Bodies and care are interwoven within the issue through various essays involving different design territories, from fashion to public space, from product design to interior architecture, highlighting new approaches to contemporary theories and practices. The dimension referred to is multispecies, postdigital, and transdisciplinary: it is about a body that is not afraid of confrontation with otherness, about a caring that expands beyond the human.