Architecture and the Interspecies Collective: Dog and Human Associates at Mars

IF 1.1 0 ARCHITECTURE

Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2020-08-05 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2020.1792108

S. Kaji-O’Grady

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Abstract

Abstract Architecture typically overlooks the presence of animals and the role design plays in domestication. Domestication makes settled human societies possible through the shared burden of labor with animals. The farms, laboratories, “pet-friendly” offices and homes in which animals work are places where humans work too. This article explores one interspecies workplace: a pet-food research facility employing hundreds of dogs owned by the Mars company in Tennessee. The dogs are housed in circular buildings that depart from the linear arrangements of most kennels. In trying to understand this design strategy and the collaborative relationship between humans and dogs in the petfood laboratory, theories of animal labor are drawn from Vinciane Despret, Jocelyne Porcher, Donna Haraway and Isabelle Stengers. This architecture fosters the transformation of the individual and the formation of a specific mode of collective action, the pack.

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建筑与物种间的集体：火星上的狗和人类伙伴

抽象建筑通常忽略了动物的存在以及设计在驯化中所扮演的角色。驯化通过与动物分担劳动负担，使定居的人类社会成为可能。动物工作的农场、实验室、“宠物友好型”办公室和家庭也是人类工作的地方。这篇文章探讨了一个物种间的工作场所：田纳西州Mars公司旗下的一家宠物食品研究机构雇佣了数百只狗。这些狗被安置在圆形建筑中，与大多数犬舍的线性排列不同。为了理解这种设计策略以及宠物食品实验室中人与狗之间的合作关系，动物劳动理论来源于Vinciane Despret、Jocelyn Porcher、Donna Haraway和Isabelle Stengers。这种架构促进了个人的转变，并形成了一种特定的集体行动模式，即群体。

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