Transitional justice and more-than-human design: an unexplored relationship

The field of transitional justice remains strongly anthropocentric. In contrast, more-than-human design – also referred to as posthumanist design, trans-species design or trans-species architecture – is a concept and praxis that explicitly de-centres humans and seeks to support multiple life forms. This interdisciplinary article makes an original contribution to transitional justice scholarship by bringing it into direct conversation with more-than-human design literature. In so doing, it aims to demonstrate the potentiality of more-than-human design for developing new approaches to transitional justice – linked to calls to decolonize the field – that are both conceptually and physically inclusive of, and attentive to, different lifeworlds. The article reflects on possible ways of incorporating more-than-human design into transitional justice, not just architecturally but also through crucial ontological and epistemological shifts that acknowledge – and value – other-than-human agencies.