Designing organs at the Transpecies Society: hybrid practices between cybernetics and artificial intelligence

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Tatiana Afanador López
Transpecies Society
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6827-7482
Judit Parés Padrós
Transpecies Society
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6165-1670

Through narrating what happens at the Transpecies Society we will show how certain methodological criteria for designing artificial organs have arisen. What interests us here is the contrast between design inspired by cybernetics and design based on AI, in order to encourage discussions around hybrid practices.


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organ, cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, cyborg, Transpecies Society, method, senses, prosthesis

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Afanador López, Tatiana; Parés Padrós, Judit. “Designing organs at the Transpecies Society: hybrid practices between cybernetics and artificial intelligence”. Temes de Disseny, 2019, no. 35, pp. 140-53, doi:10.46467/TdD35.2019.140-153.
Author Biographies

Tatiana Afanador López, Transpecies Society

Doctoral student in contemporary philosophy at the University of Barcelona dedicated to researching cyborgs from their metaphorical, biological, and technological dimensions. Member of the Transpecies Society since 2017.

Judit Parés Padrós, Transpecies Society

Degree in design with the Project The cyborg hand (Reshape competition finalist) and industrial design engineering student at Elisava. She is interested in continuing to research the relationships between humans, machines, and design together with the Transpecies Society.

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