Sketching More-than-human Times: Rethinking Temporal Representations through Embodied, Entangled, and Deep time

Temporal representations can have a socio-political impact and change how we see the world and design technologies. In this pictorial, we depart from a critique to classic representations of time that have long guided thinking in Western industrialised societies and design. Through the process of designing the More-than-Human Temporal Ontologies booklet, we describe a journey through practical engagements with the multiple ways time can be seen as created and creating more-than-human worlds. By embodying, imagining and sketching multiple expressions of more-than-human times, and by using these to appropriate, critique and expand representations of times, we propose the final outcome of the booklet as a tool for HCI and design researchers to structure dialogues and understanding of time and temporalities in more inclusive and expansive ways.