ResPOND
Yuyao Lin
Care for life after us.
02/2025-07/2025
How can we design care infrastructures for multispecies survival beyond human presence?
ResPOND is a low-cost, solar-powered emergency response system for rural fish ponds, designed especially for regions like southern China where electricity is unstable or unavailable. Without human presence, these fish would die from night time water hypoxia, is there anything we can do to provide care for life after us?
Project Video
Care is usually imagined as intentional and human-centered. But infrastructures can embody care precisely when they operate without us. The challenge lies in designing systems that anticipate more-than-human needs in uncertain futures, and that embody forms of care that do not depend on human oversight or intervention.