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Ben Sweeting
RSD11: Design over time

RSD11: Design over time

Designers must navigate between the need for immediate action and maintaining long-term change. Yet, it is difficult to think of the temporality of design beyond the consideration of years or decades.

RSD11: Different stories in design

RSD11: Different stories in design

How may we use Bateson’s provocations to rethink the problematic stories around design and modernity as mobilised in contemporary design practices?

RSD11: Methods and the worlds they make

RSD11: Methods and the worlds they make

Methods afford and perpetuate ways of understanding and organising the world much like any other artefact. Because conventions are assumed within the context of a methodological practice, they are difficult to question from within.

RSD11: Products are systemic objects

RSD11: Products are systemic objects

In this focus, RSD11 is interested in contributions exploring: circular design, regenerative design, distributed design, and, more broadly, ways that designers of things act to shape the nature and legibility of economic, bureaucratic, ecological and cultural systems.

RSD11: Radical shifts in planetary health

RSD11: Radical shifts in planetary health

My health depends on your health, which depends on networks, systems, and webs of planetary health. Attending to health means fundamentally rethinking where (our) health comes from.

Focus areas: the RSD11 seven

Focus areas: the RSD11 seven

Seven specific focus areas have been developed as provocations for critical reflection, new topics, and different directions.