Design in Between Worlds invites the reader to imagine what sciences and technologies of multiple cosmologies might look like.

Moving beyond categorizations of the modern and the traditional, framings of cultures as merely nature-bound or technological, and hierarchies between Indigenous knowledge and life sciences, the author develops design as an intercosmological practice.

The book offers new research methodologies for working between worlds in divergence —maintaining their complexity while embracing moments of not knowing. The study is based on five years of artistic collaboration within nomadic reindeer worlds in sub-arctic Sápmi, alongside engagements with epigenetic scientists. Films and speculative objects, co-designed by a reindeer herder and the author, materialize a future world in which transgenerational living relations with reindeer and migratory paths guide new forms of land politics and novel technoscientific practices.

Coming soon: the book will be available in the Aalto University online shop.

Read the open-access version here.