Emilia Tikka
Design in between worlds
Bioscience imaginaries and living relations of reindeer worlds
100542
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 either nature-bound or technological, and hierarchies between Indigenous knowledge and life sciences, Emilia Tikka develops design as an intercosmological practice. The book offers new methodologies for working in between worlds – in ways that maintain their divergence 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 materialize a future world in which transgenerational living relations with reindeer guide new forms of technoscientific practices and land politics.