How can design consider the needs, agency, and competences of non-human agents, which imply coexistence with humans in the same system?
For example, the relation with other intelligences, rights and interests that overlap, compete or collide with those of humans?
TEAM
Andrea Crippa
Michelangelo De Baggis
Davide Perencin
Dorian Plugaru
CONTEXT
BSc Product Design
Metadesign - Studio (P4)
2024/2025
PROFESSORS
Daniela Maurer
Marina Parente
Carla Sedini
Politecnico di Milano, School of Design, Milan, Italy
Squeak is a product designed for rabbits rather than their human owners. Born out of the sentence “less for better”, Squeak is a product that allows anyone who owns a rabbit to integrate vitamins and fibers deriving from food waste (vegetable and fruit peelings) in their little friend’s diet.
Squeak helps humans reducing food waste, while being an alternative kind of entertainment for rabbits, bringing together perks for both humans and their more than human pet friends.