Stray animals - city entanglements: exploring the potentials for equitable coexistence in urban Turkiye

Abstract

This pictorial invites designers to recognise the city from the animals' perspective. We conduct a photo-visual exploration of the tangible and embodied interactions between animals and urban actors in selected urban and peri-urban environments in Turkiye. We observe and cluster the existing interactions to discuss how human-centred urban spaces can be redesigned for/with stray animals in order to build equitable cohabitation for stray animals. With the resulting five themes from photographic documentation, we specify how stray animals build relationships with the city and its actors. We conclude with the potential roles of technology and design in equitable city-making with stray animals.