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**研究目的：**本研究旨在透過與非人類有機體——康普茶SCOBY（共生的細菌與酵母菌群）——的多感官互動，探討人類如何重新認識時間性並培養跨物種理解。透過設計一套「生物—數位日曆」（bio-digital calendar），研究團隊希望人類能調和自身時間觀，進一步解構人本中心主義，邁向更謙卑與關懷導向的設計實踐。
**核心概念：**More-than-Human Temporality（超越人類的時間性）、Bio-HCI （生物人機互動）、Care Ethics in Design（設計中的關懷倫理）、Organism-Centered Design（以有機體為中心的設計）
**研究方法：**研究團隊歷時一年，透過三階段原型迭代實作與日常觀察，逐步發展出一套生物—數位日曆系統。
**結論：**本研究證明，透過與活體媒介（如SCOBY）的持續、關懷導向互動，能有效促進人類對非人類時間性的理解與共感。
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We explore how actively engaging with the temporalities of a nonhuman organism can lead to multispecies understanding. To do so, we design a bio-digital calendar that brings attention to the growth and health of kombucha SCOBY, a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast that lives in a tea medium. The non-invasive bio-digital calendar surrounds the kombucha SCOBY to track (via sensors) and enhance (via sound) its growth. As we looked at and listened to our kombucha SCOBY calendar on a daily basis, we became attuned to the slowness of kombucha SCOBY. This multisensory noticing practice with the calendar, in turn, destabilized our preconceived human-centered positionality, leading to a more humble, decentered relationship between us and the organism. Through our experiences with the bio-digital calendar, we gained a better relational multispecies understanding of temporalities based on care, which, in the long term, might be a solution to a more sustainable future.
我們探索如何積極參與非人類生物的時間性以促進多物種理解。為此，我們設計了一個生物數位日曆，以引起人們對康普茶 SCOBY（一種生活在茶介質中的細菌和酵母的共生培養物）的生長和健康的關注。非侵入式生物數位日曆環繞康普茶菌，以追蹤（透過感測器）並增強（透過聲音）其生長。當我們每天查看和聆聽康普茶 SCOBY 日曆時，我們開始適應康普茶 SCOBY 的緩慢性。這種利用日曆進行的多感官注意練習反過來又破壞了我們先入為主的以人為中心的立場，導致我們與有機體之間的關係變得更加謙遜、更加去中心化。透過我們使用生物數位日曆的經驗，我們對基於關懷的時間性有了更好的多物種關係理解，從長遠來看，這可能是實現更永續未來的解決方案。
In this pictorial, we embrace the unique temporalities of living organisms as an opportunity for building deeper, more sustainable relationships with digital artifacts. To this end, we contribute a bio-digital calendar that contextualizes time based on “the rate at which [living kombucha SCOBY (Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeast)] can engage in operations” [14]. We interact with the organism through the bio-digital calendar as a means to incite humans toward recognizing and attuning to nonhuman temporalities.
在此篇畫報中，我們將生物體獨特的時間性視為與數位文物建立更深層、更永續關係的機會。為此，我們貢獻了一個生物數位日曆，該日曆根據「活康普茶 SCOBY（細菌和酵母的共生培養物）參與運作的速率」將時間情境化[14]。我們透過生物數位日曆與有機體互動，以此激勵人類認識並適應非人類的時間性。
In contrast to traditional calendars that contextualize time based on the temporality of earth’s rotations or the temporal position of stars, our bio-digital calendar contextualizes time based on an organism’s growth and health—ultimately challenging the historical, social, political, and cultural functionality of traditional timekeeping devices that seek to organize and discipline people’s time in the age of capitalism [6, 69]. Accordingly, our bio-digital calendar sensitizes us as humans to our own embodied, situated experience of time and encourages us to decenter ourselves by harmonizing our temporalities to the temporalities of another agentic organism.
傳統日曆以地球自轉或恆星位置為時間背景，而我們的生物數位日曆則以生物體的生長和健康狀況為時間背景，這最終挑戰了傳統計時設備的歷史、社會、政治和文化功能，因為傳統計時設備旨在組織和規範資本主義時代人們的時間 [6, 69]。因此，我們的生物數位日曆使我們人類對自己的具體、情境化的時間體驗更加敏感，並鼓勵我們透過協調我們的時間性與另一個代理有機體的時間性來去中心化自己。
We designed our interactive bio-digital calendar to track the daily changes in kombucha SCOBY’s health and growth via sensors and communicate these changes via sound. We engaged with the kombucha SCOBY calendar for a few moments each day, during which we observed the organism, listened to a corresponding tone of sound dictated by the organism and our code, and interpreted health data. This daily practice of engaging with the bio-digital calendar through actions of care [52, 87] led us to gain a deeper understanding of kombucha SCOBY’s natural rhythmic temporalities. We view this multispecies understanding as a step towards Donna Haraway’s multispecies kinship [34]; wherein by understanding an organism’s temporalities (and correspondingly its livingness [40]), we can begin to better recognize nonhuman agencies and flatten typically hierarchical relations between humans and nonhumans.
我們設計了互動式生物數位日曆，透過感測器追蹤康普茶 SCOBY 的健康和生長情況的每日變化，並透過聲音傳達這些變化。我們每天都會花幾分鐘研究康普茶 SCOBY 日曆，觀察生物體，聆聽生物體和我們的代碼發出的相應音調，並解釋健康數據。透過關懷行動每天與生物數位日曆互動[52, 87]，讓我們對康普茶 SCOBY 的自然節奏時間性有了更深入的理解。我們認為這種對多物種的理解是朝著 Donna Haraway 的多物種親屬關係邁出的一步[34]；透過了解生物體的時間性(以及相應的生命力[40])，我們可以開始更好地認識非人類的主體，並拉平人類與非人類之間典型的等級關係。
In this pictorial, we contribute a bio-digital calendar that facilitates human recognition and understanding of nonhuman agencies by enhancing the temporalities of and promoting acts of care towards kombucha SCOBY. We present our entire design process from observing the growth of kombucha SCOBY and analyzing its biofilm to setting design goals and iterating through three prototypes. We conclude with reflections on our interactions with our kombucha SCOBY calendar and broader recommendations for designing bio-digital artifacts that support multispecies understanding.
在這幅畫報中，我們貢獻了一個生物數位日曆，透過增強康普茶 SCOBY 的時間性和促進對康普茶 SCOBY 的關懷行為，促進人類對非人類機構的識別和理解。我們展示了整個設計過程，從觀察康普茶菌膜的生長和分析其生物膜到設定設計目標和迭代三個原型。最後，我們反思了我們與康普茶 SCOBY 日曆的互動，並提出了設計支持多物種理解的生物數位工件的更廣泛的建議。