a listening glass is a playful, makeshift device used to amplify voices through a surface. adapted from a tool that would ordinarily hold water and be transparent, it is a technology that parallels that of the aquarium itself. this book features several short, non-linear tales set amid science archives, natural history museums, underwater stations, nationat aquaria, oceanic infrastructure and field research projects. they evoke the listening glass as an instrument for tuning in to voices, revealing human-marine animai relationships that would otherwise remain unheard. how can design facilitate multispecies alliances in new ways, working towards forms of mediation conducive to a thriving, living world? |