Insecture: interdisciplinary engagements in an emergent entomological design practice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This practice-based research defines an emergent, interdisciplinary practice with the central aim of reframing the insect through design. The research began as an exploration into how to use design to create a different appreciation of insects through an understanding of how we perceive them and manage our proximity to them. Subsequently, through an investigatory process of reflection, a deeper knowledge of design and how I design, reframed by these biological entities, has been unveiled. Two insights have emerged: firstly, knowledge of the proclivities imbued in my work; and secondly, the ways in which the integration of insects can draw out multimodal design outcomes. During the period of this research, projects were designed with and for insects: emblems, a shop concept, a habitat structure, and products including a viewing apparatus and insect terrarium. These key projects created aesthetic approaches to the framing of and interaction with these animals. Design consideration of the commercial industry applications of insects bioengineering, food production, and pet breeding has presented another approach to sustainability. I have defined this insect-based strategy to designing as Design Applied Environmental Entomology. While the design work was produced in Australia, Canada and Japan, it was the Japanese context that influenced the development of investigatory strategies. In particular, the orientation on Japan provided significant historical and contemporary precedents on the role insects can have in society. In all, the design processes and methodologies that were developed in this PhD have examined the use of insects as a vehicle for design ideation and practice. By integrating living insects into concepts, processes and prototypes, the research offers models for different forms of design interactivity, offering opportunities within the public milieu to demonstrate enthusiasm, care, and value for these animals. This work, ultimately, advances design's potency to elevate attentiveness to those things biologically small and overlooked.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.044 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.052 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.022 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".