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View article: Design briefs after progress
Design briefs after progress Open
Design briefs can be expressions of needs expressed not only by educators but also by external actors and society more broadly. They are where societal needs, expectations, wishes and desires meet the internal, local and situated logic of …
View article: Seasonal design
Seasonal design Open
Imagine it is a rainy winter day, and you are walking up to a little mustard yellow house on wheels and step up three wooden steps to enter. Some people are sitting around the table. You take a step inside to join and have some tea. While …
View article: Experimenting with twilight learnings and twilight writings for community engagement
Experimenting with twilight learnings and twilight writings for community engagement Open
This contribution explores community engagement through the collaborative practice ‘Twilight Learnings – Seasonal experiments in the Tiny House on Wheels (THoW)’. In this article, we show that a reflective community can start to emerge thr…
View article: Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability
Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability Open
This article proposes un/making as a designerly response to urgent environmental issues. By focusing on the simultaneous constructive and destructive aspects of design, this effort attempts to challenge design's dominant focus on making ne…
View article: Un/Making Pollination – Feminist Methods for Creating Ecosocial Imaginaries
Un/Making Pollination – Feminist Methods for Creating Ecosocial Imaginaries Open
How to imagine other kinds of world-making when there is a loss of species; livelihoods are threatened, and lives are on the line? Stoddard et al. (2021) note that there is a lack of social imaginaries. Critical, creative practices act in …
View article: Entangled Materialities
Entangled Materialities Open
This paper discusses craft and design practices through their impact on the environment. We consider how to act concerning the consequences of the craft and design industry. Also, we reflect on the agency of our field of practice in changi…
View article: Un/Making in the Aftermath of Design
Un/Making in the Aftermath of Design Open
This paper takes as its starting point the fact that we live in the aftermath of previous making and design. For participatory design to adequately answer to this aftermath, we suggest building on a combination of participatory and specula…
View article: Glossary: Collaborative Future-Making
Glossary: Collaborative Future-Making Open
Collaborative Future-Making is a research platform at the Faculty of Culture and Society at Malmö University that is concerned with how to envision, elaborate and prototype multiple, inclusive, and sustainable futures. The platform gathers…
View article: Recipe for contract for careful sharing
Recipe for contract for careful sharing Open
This is a recipe for how humans and other species can negotiate the sharing in cohabitation. This might be sharing of a home, a neighbourhood, particular spaces, equipment, time, tasks and community.
View article: Editorial: Design, Research and Feminism(s)
Editorial: Design, Research and Feminism(s) Open
As design research matures and interacts more extensively with other academic disciplines, design research communities are engaging more profoundly and reflexively with the nature of research itsel ...
View article: How Can we Critically and Creatively Engage with Power Relations in Collaborative Design Research?
How Can we Critically and Creatively Engage with Power Relations in Collaborative Design Research? Open
This workshop explores power relations in collaborative design research. As co-creation is becoming more established and even something of a holy grail, it is important to revisit and further understandings of, for example, the limits to d…
View article: Non-local Situations: Speculating About Future Response-abilities of Postindustrial Design (Research)
Non-local Situations: Speculating About Future Response-abilities of Postindustrial Design (Research) Open
Design deals with the material, social, political, cultural, economic, and more, and in relation to history—past, present, and (possible) future(s) At the same time, the objects of design are becom ...