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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Wild Worlding Wunderkammer Workshop, Verena Kuni
Wild Worlding Wunderkammer Workshop, Verena Kuni
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Inspired by the carrier bag theory of fiction let us look for alternate ways to do our work. We do this by worlding: by attuning to and melting into the subject(s) of our research; gathering and gaining situated knowledges, interwoven with multiple threads of imagination and desire. But then gathering and gaining is based on collecting: data, objects, subjects, situations, relations; submitted into an order of things, shifted into storages, from time to time put on display. Imagination and desire are stripped off in this process and stored separately, if at all. That’s why we need a different mind-set, a …
Insurgent Design Coalitions: The History Of The Design & Oppression Network, Frederick Van Amstel, Batista E Silva Sâmia, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Mazzarotto Marco, Ricardo Artur Carvalho, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto
Insurgent Design Coalitions: The History Of The Design & Oppression Network, Frederick Van Amstel, Batista E Silva Sâmia, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Mazzarotto Marco, Ricardo Artur Carvalho, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Design research is gettng interested in social movements in recent years. Organizing tactics like coaliSon-building have been taken from civil rights movements and turned into operaSve concepts such as designing coaliSons that point towards converging interests. As such, this concept cannot support social movements, which are not formed by common interests, but by pressing social needs ignored in official and everyday poliScs. This advances further the revision of the designing coaliSon concept based on feminist literature and on the authors' experience in weaving the Design & Oppression Network in Brazil. This network was formed in 2020 by design professors, students, …
Story-Making: Re-Imagining Possible Futures Through Collaborative World-Building Approaches, Jane Turner, Manuela Taboada
Story-Making: Re-Imagining Possible Futures Through Collaborative World-Building Approaches, Jane Turner, Manuela Taboada
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This paper discusses insights from a collection of workshops where participants were invited to engage in active imagination and play with world-building and collaborative story-making through activities inspired by improvisation and tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs). The purpose is to explore ways of dismantling the ingrained habits of current design methodologies; unlearn normalized ways of thinking and re-construct shared approaches for designing, making, rethinking and reframing problems. To achieve this, the authors interrogate three of the workshops seeking patterns and characteristics that might offer opportunities for tools that are less encumbered by the legacies of their western modernist colonialist roots. We …
Nested Bodies (Or A Small And Careful Spoonful), Julie Van Oyen
Nested Bodies (Or A Small And Careful Spoonful), Julie Van Oyen
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This short paper refers to a project involving the development of a material fermentation practice into a process-led research praxis, wherein themes of embodiment and the relational bodily self are explored through direct contact with nonhuman agents. Theory and concepts borrowed from an Okanagan perspective of the body, as related through its language by scholar and land speaker Jeannette Armstrong, as well as from interaction design and a rich lineage of embodied researchers and practitioners, contribute to a re-framing of the human as a body dependent on others in the life-making activities of preparing, feeding, and eating the ferments. This …
Práticas De Ensino Para Designers Sentipensantes, Karine Freire, Chiara Del Gaudio
Práticas De Ensino Para Designers Sentipensantes, Karine Freire, Chiara Del Gaudio
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Neste trabalho, refletimos sobre como se pode ensinar o Design como forma de estar e participar no mundo. Identificamos no conceito de colaboração, uma quebra necessária ao modo dominante ensinado globalmente em escolas de design, caracterizado pelo ethos individualista da sociedade capitalista. Contudo, diversos pesquisadores da área apontam a necessidade de uma maior compreensão sobre os modos de ensino e as competências necessárias aos futuros designers para participar de processos colaborativos. Para tanto, discutiremos aqui a necessidade de compreender e superar as limitações da forma pela qual a colaboração em design é praticada e compreendida. Em muitos processos de design …
La Comensalidad Como Herramienta Para Democratizar Espacios: Vivencia En Un Laboratorio De Diseño Autónomo Entre Artesanas De Yochib Y Una Diseñadora., Zita Carolina González Guzmán, Brenda Georgina González Guzmán
La Comensalidad Como Herramienta Para Democratizar Espacios: Vivencia En Un Laboratorio De Diseño Autónomo Entre Artesanas De Yochib Y Una Diseñadora., Zita Carolina González Guzmán, Brenda Georgina González Guzmán
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
En este estudio se puede analizar el uso de una herramienta que al mismo tiempo es un dispositivo de conversación llamado comensalidad, usado para democratizar espacios y ayudar a la co-creación de prendas y textiles entre un grupo de artesanas textiles del sur de México en la comunidad semiautónoma denominada Yochib, perteneciente a la etnia tzeltal maya y una diseñadora. Para ello se conformó un laboratorio de creación y experimentación -dividido en diferentes reuniones y talleres- con el objetivo de diseñar de forma autónoma a través de la correspondencia. Así, este estudio se centró en las formas en que las …
Feral Ways Of Knowing And Doing: Tools And Resources For Transformational Creative Practice, Cristina Ampatzidou, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi, Andrea Botero
Feral Ways Of Knowing And Doing: Tools And Resources For Transformational Creative Practice, Cristina Ampatzidou, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi, Andrea Botero
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Creative practices have a role in mediating and supporting concrete, meaningful actions towards sustainability transformations. With this in mind: What are the possibilities and limits of the tools and resources that contemporary creative practices are using to reconceive and redesign forms of interaction between different disciplines, audiences and cultures for sustainability transformations? This contribution presents preliminary findings from a transdisciplinary workshop where the participants were invited to share their experiences of designing or using “tools and resources for feral ways of knowing and transformation” within creative practice. While the concept of ‘feral’ remained open to a wide range of different …
Making Sense/Zines: Reflecting On Positionality, Lizette Reitsma
Making Sense/Zines: Reflecting On Positionality, Lizette Reitsma
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
We have to be conscious about our own situatedness in the ecologies for and with which we design, but also invite for critical reviewing it. In order to do so, to become conscious and to critically review, I believe something needs to trigger and intervene. This paper is a personal account of sense-making and tool shaping, to support critical reflecting on my own positionality. I introduce my two tools: Graphical Peeling and Sensing/Zining, which rely both on ‘layouting’ to provide space for reflection. I am not a graphical designer, rather this way of working seems to help unbalance my very …
Fem DiàLeg: Feminist Participatory Thinking Space, Gabriela Masfarré Pintó, Mercè Rua Fargues
Fem DiàLeg: Feminist Participatory Thinking Space, Gabriela Masfarré Pintó, Mercè Rua Fargues
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Fem Dilàleg, which means ‘we dialogue’ in Catalan, is an initiative that started in 2019 and aims to develop the territory of dialogue as a design space and social practice, contributing to the dialogic learning practice present in many cultural traditions. Fem Diàleg’s proposition is to articulate the question of knowledge-creation praxis by triangulating: the feminist epistemologies of situated knowledge, art as a relational practice and dialogue as a shared and embodied reflexivity. Since its inception in 2019 Fem Diàleg has organized nine gatherings with over 250 participants and more than 22 invited artists and guests. In this short paper …
Visual Exploration Of Identity As A Critical Tool To Disrupt Traditional Canons In Design Pedagogy, Gaby Hernández
Visual Exploration Of Identity As A Critical Tool To Disrupt Traditional Canons In Design Pedagogy, Gaby Hernández
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This contribution discusses results from the implementation of undergraduate and graduate-level projects applied in traditional design studio settings to explore the visualization of identity. Since 2014, the author—a Central American woman of color teaching in public universities in Texas and Florida—has developed multiple hands-on class activities that focus on self-expression, self-awareness, memory, and positionality. In the undergraduate level, these activities start with the introduction of concepts and terminology from traditional design canons (i.e. principles from modernism, the Bauhaus, and other (mostly) Western European Avant Garde movements). Once students gain an understanding of these canonical principles, they embark in a self-discovery …
Dancing With The Troubles Of Ai, Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante, Luke Moffat, Lizzie Harrison, Vivienne Kuh
Dancing With The Troubles Of Ai, Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante, Luke Moffat, Lizzie Harrison, Vivienne Kuh
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
We are 4 creative ethic-ticians, working in the areas of design, fashion, arts and philosophy, making tools and spaces to inspire, drive, support and assess innovation responsive to societal and planetary crises, which we call ethics through design. We created this ritual to make time to be in our bodies, along with a team that includes musicians, performance artists, aikido masters, HIT trainers, sci-fi enthusiasts, and street dancers, to develop a transdisciplinary choreography. Together we have made a ritual to embrace the magical, illogical, delightful and laughable. We rehearsed with our bodies, protocols for anticipating, noticing, and addressing ethical tensions, …
Activating Design For Biodiversity, Zach Camozzi, Louise St. Pierre, Charlotte Falk
Activating Design For Biodiversity, Zach Camozzi, Louise St. Pierre, Charlotte Falk
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This paper documents a research project that has taken place over five years in the Emily Carr Industrial Design program. Our aim was to uncover methods to connect designers with nature, and to gain insight into how understanding our interdependence might change the way that designers work and prioritize. The act of practicing design with more-than-humans has effectively challenged human-centred design and activated deeper awareness of the implications of our design work. Over 160 Industrial design students, and 6 faculty members have been re-learning our place in the world as dependent among, and interdependent with, all other forms of life. …
Tools For An Unknown Prospect, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis
Tools For An Unknown Prospect, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Unknown Prospect is an assemblage and collaboration with Ochre that responds to extractive industry. I am exploring methods of design in relation with the more-than-human as an alternative to design research and practices that serve infinite production and capitalist culture. Ochres are not only mineral pigment, but terrestrial beings that have an ancient relationship with human culture. I enlist these geological interlocutors in creative work and printmaking to make drawings, maps, and books that extend beyond the colonial record. Ochre not only makes color material, it activates its own agency in world-making. It realizes the desert as more than barren, …
Negotiating The Possible Through The Artificial, Gillian Russell, Craig Badke
Negotiating The Possible Through The Artificial, Gillian Russell, Craig Badke
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Relating the concepts of value-sensitive design to decolonial theory, we will describe our attempts to activate resistance to the foundations of modern technicity through a game called Reimagining the Now, which we designed for the Digital Democracies Institute in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We argue that, as digital technologies become embedded in every facet of society, any hope of a digital democracy requires sustained public discourse, imagination, and action that goes beyond an understanding of how digital technologies work, towards a comprehension of the value systems, contexts, and consequences of their creation. To do this we devised a custom card set …
Pictogramas, Comunicacion Intercultural Y Diseño Participativo, Nathaly Pinto, Andrea Botero
Pictogramas, Comunicacion Intercultural Y Diseño Participativo, Nathaly Pinto, Andrea Botero
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Reflexionamos sobre el proceso y los resultados preliminares de un proyecto participativo que tiene como objetivo apoyar y dise ar de manera colaborativa un sistema de pictogramas para los procesos de comunicaci n intercultural con y para comunidades ind genas del Ecuador. El proyecto construye sobre la larga tradici n de comunicaci n comunitaria ind gena que ha sido un importante espacio intercultural de resistencia para los pueblos ind genas de Ecuador. Durante el proyecto hemos unido esfuerzos con j venes representantes de distintas nacionalidades amaz nicas motivados por la necesidad de compartir informaci n y visibilizar la situaci n …
Biodiversity Logbooks For An Environmental Pedagogy Of Care, Serena Pollastri, Liz Edwards
Biodiversity Logbooks For An Environmental Pedagogy Of Care, Serena Pollastri, Liz Edwards
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Over the past century, botanists and educators have observed a sharp decrease in people’s ability to notice and identify plants in their environment, especially among urban populations in the West. This phenomenon has often been referred to as “Plant Blindness” or “Plant Awareness Disparity”, and is caused by a combination of factors - some of which are related to reduced opportunities for engagement with nature and the increase in the use of digital technology. As progressive disconnection from the environment starts from an early age, early years and primary education play a crucial role in determining people’s connection or disconnection …
Navigating A Bipoc Identity Through Solidarity Design Labor, Dave Pabellon
Navigating A Bipoc Identity Through Solidarity Design Labor, Dave Pabellon
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This short paper uses experiences as a design practitioner, an activist, and a 2nd generation immigrant as a means to understand and define “good work”, and how that work can assist in navigating one’s identity. The “good work” is self-defined by the author as labor produced in solidarity with communities in need of support. Through the obsession with work, albeit “good work”, one can ultimately lose sight of their own identity through assimilation. Or at the very least, be forced into a work-first lifestyle where constant code-switching is necessary, which forces the siloing off of each identity lens, never to …
Regenerative Practice As Transformative Design Framework, Yari Or
Regenerative Practice As Transformative Design Framework, Yari Or
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Regenerative practice is a theory of transformative practice which centers reconnection and being-in-relation as key practices of eco-social change in societies of the global North. It is a practical theory of social change that theorizes the interlinking of the earth's natural ecosystem, social relations and individual well-being. The objective of regenerative practice design is the re-centering of human environments, learning environments, pedagogies, and services towards reconnection, decolonization, and just action now. The short paper outlines a design framework for the emergence of reconnection and being-in-relation as processes that support the decolonization between humans and with more-than-human nature.
Care/Community/Action!: Cards For Alternative Care Paradigms, Morgan Martino
Care/Community/Action!: Cards For Alternative Care Paradigms, Morgan Martino
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
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Staying Diasporic: Centering Migrant And Diasporic Ways Of Being In Design, Yénika Castillo Muñoz
Staying Diasporic: Centering Migrant And Diasporic Ways Of Being In Design, Yénika Castillo Muñoz
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Migration and diaspora are phenomenons that are continuously shaping the world, and that are caused and informed by colonial structures. The communities in diaspora are held together by particular ways of imagining and relating with the homeland, the host culture, and themselves, touching back into the local. In the experience of migrating and becoming part of a diaspora, our identities shift, as we enter a state of tension between total assimilation and resistance, questioning our national hegemonic values and ways of being. As a designer with migrated roots, I would like to share some experiences and thoughts about working in …
Comunidades Autônomas: Construção De Cenários Para Populações Em Vulnerabilidade No Covid-19, Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Luana Duarte Fuentefria, Lúcia Kaplan
Comunidades Autônomas: Construção De Cenários Para Populações Em Vulnerabilidade No Covid-19, Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Luana Duarte Fuentefria, Lúcia Kaplan
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Este trabalho é um esforço coletivo para tentar alavancar a autonomia das comunidades mais afetadas pela pandemia do Covid-19 e despertar novas reflexões sobre a oportunidade de construir futuros alternativos. Para isso, utilizamos o método de Cenários Orientados pelo Design, um exercício de suporte ao desenvolvimento de estratégias por meio da criação de visões compartilhadas e de comunicação de outros futuros possíveis. Por meio desse método, é possível navegar pelo processo de projeto, fomentando o diálogo e negociação entre diversos atores. Contamos com a colaboração de especialistas e cidadãos, em rodadas de contato síncrono e assíncrono, perseguindo o objetivo de …
Narrative-Based Human–Artificial Collaboration: A Reflection On Narratives As A Framework For Enhancing Human–Machine Social Relations, Anca Serbanescu, Mariana Ciancia, Francesca Piredda, Maresa Bertolo
Narrative-Based Human–Artificial Collaboration: A Reflection On Narratives As A Framework For Enhancing Human–Machine Social Relations, Anca Serbanescu, Mariana Ciancia, Francesca Piredda, Maresa Bertolo
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This paper aims to reflect on human–artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration in cultural production and depicts the collective socio-cultural imaginary focusing on humans’ intrinsic vulnerabilities related to AI systems, which are often perceived as a way of reshaping human presence within contemporary society. Abandoning an anthropocentric perspective, contemporary ecosystems should include non-human and AI systems. Our hypothesis states that their interactions could be reshaped by adopting a narrative framework. Since humans are social animals, if the power of stories is used for embracing plurality', sociality can be extended to include AI systems. Considering such premises, relationships between humans and AI may …
Calendar Collective, Kalyani Tupkary
Calendar Collective, Kalyani Tupkary
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Calendars increasingly play a fundamental role in establishing our everyday rhythms, shaping our consciousness of temporality. But these tools are not neutral. They codify values and behaviour while obscuring the politics of time embedded in their representation. After all, how we represent time affects how we conceptualize time. Calendar Collective is a design-led research investigation that challenges the normative understanding of time as linear, objective and neutral. In this investigation, I use calendar as a subversive tool to dismantle current hegemonic time structures and rebuild plural structures. As a designer from a previously colonized country, I employ calendar as a …
Mirada Al Futuro A Raíz De Un Experimento Educativo Sobre Diseño Y Género, Marcelo Zambrano, Mariana Salgado, Omar Mendoza, Mari De Mater O’́Neill, Bryan Delgado
Mirada Al Futuro A Raíz De Un Experimento Educativo Sobre Diseño Y Género, Marcelo Zambrano, Mariana Salgado, Omar Mendoza, Mari De Mater O’́Neill, Bryan Delgado
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Actualmente, presenciamos transformaciones en ámbitos interconectados como la educación y el diseño; podemos reconocer estos cambios en la creciente digitalización de procesos educativos, en la amplia oferta virtual de cursos de especialización en diseño o en la diversificación de recursos utilizados en educación y en diseño. Sin embargo, aunque estas temáticas pueden considerarse amplias, aún quedan vacíos reflexivos no abordados a profundidad, como la formación en diseño o las diferentes perspectivas para pensar y hacer diseño. En este contexto, un grupo de diseñadoras decidió organizar una certificación en línea que aborde estas cuestiones desde posiciones críticas planteadas a partir de …
Sustainable Design Education In Mexico: Towards A Non-Colonial Post Anthropocentric Design, Taina Campos Garcia
Sustainable Design Education In Mexico: Towards A Non-Colonial Post Anthropocentric Design, Taina Campos Garcia
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This article is an extension of my participation in the PIVOT 21 Virtual Conference seeking to deepen the conversation around design for the pluriverses in sustainable design education in Mexico and Latin America. As discussed in the Ancestral Future, El Futuro Ancestral panel of the Conference. We, Designers and actors from the Global South, are in the path of a transition into other ways of doing design, and dismantling the imposing structures, finding inspiration in our ancestral views of the world. The conference and the present research work raise the question of how design and design education in our territories …
Introducing Relationality To Design Research, Jananda Lima
Introducing Relationality To Design Research, Jananda Lima
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
The Design Eurocentric legacy shaped its research practices based on separability and objectification. This paper seeks to reflect on the movement of experimenting and conceiving new methods as the beginning of major changes in the decolonizing design enterprise. The reflection stems from two main concepts: relationality and accountability. By going into the field, embodying other ontologies and epistemologies, I suggest that dismantling assumptions is an enriching and often painful process. It is by embracing uncomfortable positions and by unlearning that designers are able to reimagine design practices for decoloniality. This reflexive exercise is shaped as a conversation between my personal …
Between Borderlands And Intersections: Roñe’E Yvype (We Talk About Land), Pat Vera
Between Borderlands And Intersections: Roñe’E Yvype (We Talk About Land), Pat Vera
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
In this paper I propose land-based design methodologies as a way to un-design the colonial space of the University. I contextualize land-based pedagogy within an embodied practice and thus I address my own positionality as a LatinX Queer Brown Mestiza Woman. In the context of a course that I developed called Re-reading Place, I present a methodology that I define as Land-bordering, which captures the transmission of memories and lived experiences as they connect to the land and the intersections that influenced that experience. I propose a design process of dismantling the colonial structures of modernist design that exacerbate the …
Reflecting On Decoloniality And Justice In Latin American Seed System Transformations, Juan Garzon
Reflecting On Decoloniality And Justice In Latin American Seed System Transformations, Juan Garzon
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Over the last 20 years, Latin American ‘seed guardian networks’ have become increasingly influential in seed system transformations. This is a recent chapter in the decades old transition of seeds from deeply rooted commons to a global commodity, which constantly favours capitalist industrialism over all other ways of being. The emergence and consolidation of these networks is tied to the intensification of neoliberal reforms that undermine Indigenous, Afro-Latino, peasant, agroecological and organic agricultural practices. As part of this process, outliers connect in distributed networks to fight for the inclusion of their practices and visions, exerting pressure on hegemonic actors to …
Laboratorio Ancestral: Diseño Participativo Y Sabidurías Kichwas En La Amazonia De Ecuador, Lucía Garcés
Laboratorio Ancestral: Diseño Participativo Y Sabidurías Kichwas En La Amazonia De Ecuador, Lucía Garcés
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
El artículo presentado a la Conferencia PIVOT 2021 es una reflexión en base al tema Tiempo linear Vs. Tiempo circular, enfocada en responder a la pregunta ¿Cómo cambiaría el pensamiento del futuro, si adoptáramos la noción de ancestralidad? Para responder a esta pregunta la primer parte del artículo aborda la revitalización de sabidurías ancestrales en nacionalidades indígenas de Ecuador, considerando como problemática la uniformidad de los programas educativos que a llevado a los pueblos indígenas a la asimilación de la cultura occidental. Desde está perspectiva, se propone una alternativa a la revitalización de estos saberes desde un pensamiento (de) colonial, …
A Lesson From Fazal Sheikh’S “Desert Bloom” For Living In A Post-Covid World, Bill Leeming
A Lesson From Fazal Sheikh’S “Desert Bloom” For Living In A Post-Covid World, Bill Leeming
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
We are told that we can expect to live with an assortment of “new normals” at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also told that living through the COVID-19 pandemic has made us better able to face longstanding challenges such as climate change and inegalitarian social arrangements. In this paper I reflect on what we are being told by drawing on a lesson I have learned from Fazal Sheikh’s 2011 aerial photographic series to locate evidence of Bedouin villages in the Negev desert in the wake of Israeli campaigns in the 1960s to “make the desert bloom.” The …