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Liberating Structures For Pluriversal World-Making, Máille Faughnan, Laura Murphy Jul 2021

Liberating Structures For Pluriversal World-Making, Máille Faughnan, Laura Murphy

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

One-way lectures, status reports, brainstorming, and open and managed discussions can all be tedious, alienating and demoralizing exercises of unbalanced power. We see opportunities to rethink in-person and online interactions across spheres such as workplaces, classrooms, conferences, and movement organizing. We share essential principles of Liberating Structures (LS), a set of 33+ open-source methods for more engaging and effective gatherings. We offer visual illustrations, practical examples, and insights from our experiences using LS for teaching and facilitation. LS, named by action researcher William Torbert and elaborated by Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless and others, are grounded in complexity thinking (vs. linear …


Feral Ways Of Knowing And Doing: Tools And Resources For Transformational Creative Practice, Cristina Ampatzidou, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi, Andrea Botero Jul 2021

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 …


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 Jul 2021

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, …


Nested Bodies (Or A Small And Careful Spoonful), Julie Van Oyen Jul 2021

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 …


Post-Anthropocentric Design: The Problem Of Optimizing The Relationship Between Humans And Nature, Sven Quadflieg Jul 2021

Post-Anthropocentric Design: The Problem Of Optimizing The Relationship Between Humans And Nature, Sven Quadflieg

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

The history of design shows countless examples in which design has caused harm on an individual, social, political, or ecological level – even things that are identified as nature, depending on the cultural and geographical context, have already been interfered with by design. All these actions are, of course, anthropocentric – because design is always an anthropocentric activity and practically no processes exist that seriously exclude humans as stakeholders (this problem is intensified by the fact that design is also dominated by a WEIRD – western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic – view that lacks the methods and vocabulary to …


Tools For An Unknown Prospect, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis Jul 2021

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, …


Activating Design For Biodiversity, Zach Camozzi, Louise St. Pierre, Charlotte Falk Jul 2021

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. …


Regenerative Practice As Transformative Design Framework, Yari Or Jul 2021

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.


Interconnected Futures: Material Practices And Knowledge-Based Systems In The Academy, Angela Kilford, Faith Kane, Sonya Withers Jul 2021

Interconnected Futures: Material Practices And Knowledge-Based Systems In The Academy, Angela Kilford, Faith Kane, Sonya Withers

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

More than ever, the role of textile design in environmental, economic, and social crises globally is being revealed. This presents a challenge to activate textile design towards positive change through centring practices that are relational, place-based, and deeply attuned to justice and the wellbeing of our planet: Areas of concern that have been embedded in indigenous ways of Te Moana-nui-a-kiwa for over a millennium. However, as wāhine who whakapapa Te Moana-nui-a-kiwa and Pākehā, we are experiencing tensions when we facilitate authentic knowledge-based systems and material practices that were once naturally entangled to nature, people, and the wellbeing of society. Within …


Calendar Collective, Kalyani Tupkary Jul 2021

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 …


Práticas De Ensino Para Designers Sentipensantes, Karine Freire, Chiara Del Gaudio Jul 2021

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 …


Comunidades Autônomas: Construção De Cenários Para Populações Em Vulnerabilidade No Covid-19, Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Luana Duarte Fuentefria, Lúcia Kaplan Jul 2021

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 …


The Tools And Methods Towards Liberatory Joy - Research Through Faraoyść, Nour Jaoude Abou, Julia Szagdaj, Anna Lathrop Jul 2021

The Tools And Methods Towards Liberatory Joy - Research Through Faraoyść, Nour Jaoude Abou, Julia Szagdaj, Anna Lathrop

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

How do you imagine alternatives if you either don’t have the space for it, or are being restrained from imagining? Faraoyść - the shared emoLon of joy liberated from systems of oppression, which creates a portal towards possible new realiLes - is a method that facilitates the imaginaLon of alternaLves to our current reality currently determined by what is known, what is assumed, and what stops one from imagining. We created and developed tools to culLvate and evoke faraoyść that involved poetry wriLng, culturally-specific storytelling, music, co-design, and the acLon of naming the self and objects. These tools resulted in …


Navigating A Bipoc Identity Through Solidarity Design Labor, Dave Pabellon Jul 2021

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 …


White Skin, Brown Soil: A White Woman’S Search For Identity, Culture, And Belonging On Stolen Lands, Sarah Johnstone Jul 2021

White Skin, Brown Soil: A White Woman’S Search For Identity, Culture, And Belonging On Stolen Lands, Sarah Johnstone

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

This research responds to the eventual (and very necessary) process of dismantling and unlearning the white Australian culture in favour of pluriversal, decolonial, and relational ecologies. However, the ways in which we go about collectively re-imagining this future is unclear. This research documents my own personal journey to explore and integrate my Celtic ancestry so that it can be a source of wisdom and inspiration for assisting myself and other white people for co-creating regenerative and pluralistic futures alongside indigenous and culturally diverse migrants on the lands of so-called Australia. This study is contextualised through a brief reflection on an …


Staying Diasporic: Centering Migrant And Diasporic Ways Of Being In Design, Yénika Castillo Muñoz Jul 2021

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 …


Pictogramas, Comunicacion Intercultural Y Diseño Participativo, Nathaly Pinto, Andrea Botero Jul 2021

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 …


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 Jul 2021

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 …


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 Jul 2021

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 …


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 Jul 2021

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 …


Negotiating The Possible Through The Artificial, Gillian Russell, Craig Badke Jul 2021

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 …


Story-Making: Re-Imagining Possible Futures Through Collaborative World-Building Approaches, Jane Turner, Manuela Taboada Jul 2021

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 …


Care/Community/Action!: Cards For Alternative Care Paradigms, Morgan Martino Jul 2021

Care/Community/Action!: Cards For Alternative Care Paradigms, Morgan Martino

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

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Between Borderlands And Intersections: Roñe’E Yvype (We Talk About Land), Pat Vera Jul 2021

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 …


Participatory Site-Specific Performance To Discuss Climate Change And Water Pollution, Marija Griniuk Jul 2021

Participatory Site-Specific Performance To Discuss Climate Change And Water Pollution, Marija Griniuk

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

The phenomenon explored in this research is participatory site-specific performance art, themed around eco-violence, climate change and water pollution, which is discussed within a framework of the decolonisation of knowledge through arts-based action research and a pluriversal approach to participants’ experiences. The two case projects were conducted with youth and children aged 6-13 y.o. from Kaunas, Lithuania. The data gathered during the two case projects include photo and video documentation and my notes. Via the examples of the provided cases, the present study explores how the transcorporeality of the space and site of a participatory site-specific performance can be used …


Rearticulaciones: Desmantelar Y Reensamblar El Futuro-Pasado Desde La Perspectiva Del Diseño Del Sur, Fernando Alberto Álvarez Romero Jul 2021

Rearticulaciones: Desmantelar Y Reensamblar El Futuro-Pasado Desde La Perspectiva Del Diseño Del Sur, Fernando Alberto Álvarez Romero

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

La idea de las rearticulaciones y nuevos conceptos propuestos parte de entender que como civilización estamos atravesando por una crisis nunca antes conocida de la existencia en el planeta (Escobar 2019, Fry 2012). La especie humana ha alterado los ciclos naturales1, asimismo, su manera de relacionarse entre sí ha conllevado una crisis social reflejada principalmente en la desigualdad, que se ha convertido en un ciclo que repercute en el deterioro ambiental2. De allí que se requieren plantear y hacer ingentes esfuerzos por desmantelar y rearticular las acciones humanas negativas para nosotros mismos y el ambiente pero esta vez de otro …


Laboratorio Ancestral: Diseño Participativo Y Sabidurías Kichwas En La Amazonia De Ecuador, Lucía Garcés Jul 2021

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, …


Sustainable Design Education In Mexico: Towards A Non-Colonial Post Anthropocentric Design, Taina Campos Garcia Jul 2021

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 …


Sjalel Lekil Kuxlejal: Mayan Weaving And Zapatismo In Design Research, Diana Albarran Gonzalez, Taller Malacate Jul 2021

Sjalel Lekil Kuxlejal: Mayan Weaving And Zapatismo In Design Research, Diana Albarran Gonzalez, Taller Malacate

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

Situated in the highlands of Chiapas, southeast Mexico, this research seeks to contribute to decolonising textile artisanal design and the recogni:on of Indigenous design alongside Mayan Tsotsil and Tseltal weavers in search of a fair-dignified life, Lekil Kuxlejal. Using tex:les as sources of rich knowledge and research metaphor, a woven methodological approach is developed by interlacing decolonial theory and design from the Global South. Furthermore, drawing from Indigenous onto-epistemologies such as corazonar, Zapa:smo and Buen Vivir (good living, collec:ve well-being), this study presents a new approach to tex:les as resistance combined with Mayan cosmovision, and is in alignment with the …


A Lesson From Fazal Sheikh’S “Desert Bloom” For Living In A Post-Covid World, Bill Leeming Jul 2021

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 …