Ruth Catlow’s research while affiliated with WWF United Kingdom and other places

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Publications (12)


Intimate Translations: Transforming the Urban Imagination
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June 2024

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Ruth Catlow

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) are all impacting urban space. One response to such changes has been to make cities ecologically sustainable and ‘smart’. From real-time bus information, autonomous electric vehicles, smart parking, and smart street lighting, such initiatives are often presented as a social and environmental good. Critics, however, increasingly argue that technologically driven, and efficiency-led approaches to sustainability in the smart city are too simplistic and leave little room for participation and citizen agency despite government efforts to integrate innovative technologies in more equitable ways. This has prompted a growing awareness that a human-centred notion of cities, in which urban space is designed for, and inhabited by, humans only, is no longer tenable. Within the age of the Anthropocene, increasing numbers of scholars and practitioners are acknowledging the entanglements between human and non-human others (including plants, animals, insects, as well as soil, water, and sensors and their data) in urban life. In Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, renowned researchers and practitioners from urban planning, architecture, environmental humanities, geography, design, arts, and computing critically explore smart cities beyond a human-centred approach. They respond to the complex interrelations between human and non-human others in urban space. Through theory, policy, and practice (past and present), as well as thinking speculatively about how smart cities may evolve in the future, the book makes a timely contribution to lively, contemporary scientific and political debates on what it means to design genuinely sustainable smart cities.











Citations (7)


... Approaches designed to understand different potential relations range from experiments in sitting with other lifeforms, such as being with water [4] and walks led by non-humans [8]; to multispecies meditations as part of enacting more-than-human roleplay [24]. They include animal-computer studies, involving non-human species in research (e.g. ...

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More-than-Human Participatory Approaches for Design: Method and Function in Making Relations
Intimate Translations: Transforming the Urban Imagination
  • Citing Chapter
  • June 2024

... Overall, creative art practices have a unique potential to engage with deep leverage points (i.e. values, goals and world views of actors; see Abson et al., 2017) for sustainability transformations (Vervoort et al., 2024). While there is an increasing engagement of the arts in climate change transformations, the role of the arts in addressing climate change solutions has so far been underestimated in the IPCC reports (Galafassi et al., 2018a). ...

9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations
  • Citing Article
  • January 2024

Ecology and Society

... Reasons for mounting role-play range from attempting to inspire thoughts of different relations in a shared habitat (e.g. [24] where non-human park-users negotiate together), to learning about new digital technologies, such as urban sensing [34], smart cities [5] or blockchain and its potential to achieve justice for lifeforms involved in small farming initiatives ([13] [15]). A developing approach is to aggregate multiple types of species in one roleplay, to focus on an ecosystem or an intervention's differential impacts on different species. ...

Algorithmic Food Justice
  • Citing Chapter
  • February 2023

... • Pervasive games/play [8,30,65,69,71,72,98,141] • Playful interaction [10,12,25,102,104,123,141] • Embodied interaction [19,43,66,91,136,151] • Wearables [9, 25, 26, 35-38, 66, 73, 90] • Design fiction/futuring [48,64,90] • Augmented reality [28,30,87,144] • Appropriation [121] • Serious games [17,93] • Situated action [11,12] • Design methodologies [73,77,93] • Communication [9,17,31,42] • Virtual Reality [64,84,151] • Value in design [12,30,70,90,103] • Immersion [30,123,137,141] • More than human [20,83,124] • Human centered design [103] • Interactive storytelling [43,58,132] • Tangibility [27,58] • Participatory design [31,73] ...

Problematising Transparency Through LARP And Deliberation
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • June 2021

... • Pervasive games/play [8,30,65,69,71,72,98,141] • Playful interaction [10,12,25,102,104,123,141] • Embodied interaction [19,43,66,91,136,151] • Wearables [9, 25, 26, 35-38, 66, 73, 90] • Design fiction/futuring [48,64,90] • Augmented reality [28,30,87,144] • Appropriation [121] • Serious games [17,93] • Situated action [11,12] • Design methodologies [73,77,93] • Communication [9,17,31,42] • Virtual Reality [64,84,151] • Value in design [12,30,70,90,103] • Immersion [30,123,137,141] • More than human [20,83,124] • Human centered design [103] • Interactive storytelling [43,58,132] • Tangibility [27,58] • Participatory design [31,73] ...

Deliberating Data-Driven Societies Through Live Action Role Play
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • June 2021

... Through site-specific art, the FA's research strived to ground in the context and engage with its materiality to reflect on how the local stories are implied in and perpetuate larger questions of coloniality. The processual understanding of a site through situated engagement, combined with the permeability of a site to surrounding socio, environmental, economic, historical and political broader dynamics, makes sitespecific art an apt tool for bridging local to global concerns as called for in PD (Dolejšová et al. 2021;Huybrechts et al. 2020;2022). However, as mentioned above, relying on conventional anthropocentric tools or methods may prove to be ineffective when attempting to engage with the complexity of situated practice. ...

Designing for Transformative Futures: Creative Practice, Social Change and Climate Emergency
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • Full-text available
  • June 2021

... The paper emphasises how no one 'owns the whole system'; therefore, engagement with various stakeholders from communities of practice, epistemic communities, and interest groups is imperative to understand the values and resources of stakeholders to enable systems transformation. The literature reveals that co-design methods are instrumental in driving sustainable transformations across diverse systems such as energy (Krietemeyer et al., 2021, Lennon et al., 2019, Liu et al., 2012, Trueworthy et al., 2024; agricultural (Ciaccia et al., 2021, Cisilino and Vanni, 2019, Enloe et al., 2021, Hossard et al., 2022b, Karagiannopoulou et al., 2020, Mutinda et al., 2024, Reckling et al., 2020, Richard et al., 2020; food (Heitlinger andHouston, 2021, Kim et al., 2020); and urban systems (Bell et al., 2018, Davidová and Zímová, 2018, Moro and Puerari, 2015, Sharp and Salter, 2017, Webb et al., 2018. These examples from the literature also provide insight into the role of co-design within policy and decision-making contexts through the ability to enhance whole-system thinking and bring about transformational change through bidirectional approaches (a combination of bottom-up and top-down). ...

Algorithmic Food Justice: Co-Designing More-than-Human Blockchain Futures for the Food Commons
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • May 2021