eprintid: 10190162
rev_number: 17
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userid: 699
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datestamp: 2024-05-03 11:13:43
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type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Shergill, Ramandeep
title: Visions of a Critical Posthuman Practice: Embodying Exoskeletal Living Systems (ELS)
ispublished: unpub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F36
note: Copyright © The Author 2024.  Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).  Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms.  Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.
abstract: In the twenty-first century, the consequences of anthropogenic activity and the resulting changes in climate and reduction in biodiversity are having a substantial impact on the human body, threatening human survival. The unknown scope of environmental and ecological conditions may lead to a global existential threat. This research reimagines and redefines the body and its relationality to an increasingly environmentally fragile planet, through the proposition of Exoskeletal Living Systems (ELS). A modular set of biologically integrated interfaces between the body and its surroundings as a protective encasement system is suggested — achieving new aesthetics in a mode of critical posthuman practice. Bioregenerative Life Support Systems are interpreted through photographic explorations, supported by design and biochemical engineering. The perception of the body as a singular cultural agent is challenged through characterising sympoietic (making-with) alliances. Exoskeletal Living Systems are suggested as a response, through speculative design, to climatic existential risk conditions on Earth and for supporting life beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
date: 2024-03-28
date_type: published
full_text_type: other
thesis_class: doctoral_embargoed
thesis_award: Ph.D
language: eng
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elements_id: 2265031
lyricists_name: Shergill, Ramandeep
lyricists_id: RSHER08
actors_name: Shergill, Ramandeep
actors_id: RSHER08
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: restricted
pagerange: 1-266
pages: 266
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: Bartlett School of Architecture
thesis_type: Doctoral
editors_name: Cruz, Marcos
citation:        Shergill, Ramandeep;      (2024)    Visions of a Critical Posthuman Practice: Embodying Exoskeletal Living Systems (ELS).                   Doctoral thesis  (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).    
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10190162/3/Shergill_10190162_thesis.pdf