Designing multispecies city tools: Exploring cohabitation with community animals in Turkey

How can we, designers, seek ways to co-create cohabitation and multispecies justice-oriented cities with animals? The emerging fields of Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) increasingly focus on designing for animal well-being and active participation in multispecies interactions. By building on the previous justice-oriented approaches in intersectional research fields, HCI, ACI, Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), and More-than-Human (MtH) research, this thesis explores opportunities for designers to broaden their approach to designing justice-oriented entanglements for multispecies interactions by materialising theoretical methods and approaches through designerly ways of knowing. With a focus on multispecies cohabitation with community animals who independently live in the urban spaces and are cared for by the community, the studies actively invite community animals and diverse human actors into the design spaces to imagine and co-create a multispecies justice-oriented city, rethinking the power hierarchies in intra- and interspecies relations, multispecies relationality and interconnectedness, and equitable participation of animals in the design process.