The field of design is currently undergoing a more-than-human turn. This
shift is driven by pressing global challenges such as the climate crisis, alongside the
increased agency of technologies in everyday life and a growing interest in advancing
inclusive and sustainable agendas. This track invited submissions reporting on practical
experiments within this emerging space. The contributions highlight diverse ways in
which more-than-human thinking can be enacted across various contexts and
emphasize the importance of forging new alliances –between humans and
nonhumans, theory and practice, and research and industry. This editorial unpacks the
track’s motivation and summarizes the contributions received, examining them
through the concept of designing-with. Our discussion expands this concept to include
a wide array of more-than-human engagements across three themes: making-with
care, thinking-with technologies, and becoming-with multispecies. These themes
move the field beyond mere participation of nonhumans in design processes, and
towards novel practices of making, thinking, and becoming within human-nonhuman
relations
