The method is effective if the designer employing it subscribes to the Eastern philos- ophy, which grants an equivalent status to all entities, living and inanimate, but irrationally unpalatable to designers stemming from the Western Cartesian tradition, which ascribes true individuality and sentience solely to human beings. The legitimacy of intentional anthropomorphism depends on the viewer’s cultural con- text. The process of methodological appropriation is, however, a double-edged sword. They question the validity and the ethics of the cultural imposition onto nature and explore sexuality in its trans-biotic manifestations. The reproductive augmentations conceived through this project are critical discursive objects rather than pragmatic design solutions. Given the lack of first-person experience and limited knowledge on plant cognition (if it exists), biofiction prototyping offers cross-referenced insight and to the best of human ability approaches the plant entity, resulting in a benevolent projection of a paradoxical utility and personification onto nature. The appropriation of the human-centered design methodology onto plant life provides a necessary albeit provisional framework, within which the designer attempts to “feel into” the subject. Their formalizations linger between allusions to medical devices and erotic hard- ware, but their intended functionality can only be perceived through an understanding of the principles that support the interaction between the plants and the agents on which they depend to overcome their immobility.Īlthough extensively studied, the plant clients remain candid in their true necessity and haplessly silent about their interest. The outcome of the exploration of the PSX Consultancy’s plant-centered design is a collection of concepts, which appeal to the viewers’ imagination, but leave them con- fused amidst the different rationalizations of what the objects are and what purpose they serve. The Plant Sex Consultancy employs design methodologies to create augmentations for its vegetal clients, which supplement and enhance their natural reproductive strategies.
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