Category: Topic: Culture & Society

Topic: Culture & Society

Critical and pluriversal design for a world in crisis

Lesley-Ann Noel

New Old Architectures: Interdisciplinary spatial practice

Fran Edgerley and Sofia Deria

Confronting Legacies of Oppression in Systemic Design

Alberto Soriano, Josina Vink, and Shivani Prakash

Playing within Systems for Change (The Art Panel)

Ioannis (John) Bardakos, Tegan Bristow, Chris Speed, and Claudia Westermann

Absence, Ignorance, Presence (AIP) – An Exformative Approach to Confronting Legacies of Oppression in Education

Francis Laleman

Indigenising & Decolonising Social Innovation: Lessons for Systemic Design

Jodi Calahoo-Stonehouse

Pandemic of Today’s AI

Carlos Castellanos, Xiao Zoe Fang, Paul Pangaro, and Eryk Salvaggio

The Age of Planetary Systems Complexity

Perin Ruttonsha

Wordings and Worldings—DALL-E wordplays to visualise alternative metaphors for complex systems

Palak Dudani

How does service design tackle sustainability challenges properly?

Bernd Herbert and Mani I

Systemic-self and Pluriverse: A design research framework for pluriverse

Mamta Gautam

A System Design and Inquiry of South Railway Station in Shanghai: From functional to symbolic

Ye Wang, Yijia Xin, Bill Li, and Jacky Shen

A Systemic Approach to Proximity Through Design for Relations

Carla Sedini, Silvia D’Ambrosio, Xue Pei, and Francesco Zurlo

Are Systemic Design Methods Excluding People with Learning Disabilities?

Irma Cecilia Landa-Avila, Satheesh Gangadharan, Sarah Rabbitte, Amy Wilkins, Michelle O’Reilly, Neil Sinclair, Chris Knifton, Panagiotis Balatsoukas, Rohit Shankar, and Gyuchan Thomas Jun

At the Intersection of Cosmopolitan Elitism and Oppression: A postcolonial analysis of transnational education systems

Pushpi Bagchi

Braiding Knowledge Systems as Environmental Peacebuilding: A four-dimensional analysis for co-applying Indigenous and non-Indigenous worldviews

Natalija Vojno

Chawalgatha: Creating awareness about the indigenous rice crops of India through communication design

Saurabh Tewari and Raina Singh

Commoning by Design: Staying relational in conflict

Julia Schaeper

Global Elephants in the Room: A reflexive prospective following 50 years of the Global Problematique

Peter Jones

Micro-Architectures V.2: A practical experiment on how to design with uncertainty

Erica Azevedo da Costa E Mattos, and Diego Fagundes Da Silva

Narrative Patterns and Exformative Design in Cooperative Learning

Francis Laleman

Quilting Care Patterns: Remaking our social fabric

Josina Vink

Rethinking Participatory Design Research Methodologies

Chantal Spencer

Shifting Perceptions: Transforming anti-racism praxis into prototypes

Sameer Singh

Systems for Innovation: Towards a model of requisite variety through intercultural conversations

Estefania Ciliotta Chehade and Michael Arnold Mages

The Hip Hop Xpress Double Dutch Boom Bus

William M. Patterson and Sharon Irish

The Ultimate Control: Using systems and futures thinking to confront “the Pill” as a system of liberation and oppression

Alexis Tennent and Angie Fleming

The Model of Logical Paradox: Addressing design and double-bind communication in public services

Linda Blaasvær, Tore Gulden, and Frederick Steier

To Witness, To Practise, To Recognise: We see water system

Veneranda Carrino, Federica Spera, and Giovanni Capoccia

Early Childhood Development

Vinayak Unni, Gautam Kumar, Praveen Nahar, Neha Mandlik, and Sahil Thappa

Finding yourselves in a changing world of work

Maggie Greyson, George Wang, and Angith Mohanarajan

Gamifying the Concept of Wâhkôhtowin to Rebuild Relations

Sam Singh and Jodi Calahoo-Stonehouse

Systems of Information Dissemination

Andrea Barros, Sylvia MacSpadyen, Aisha Simpson, Hannah Karunakar and Umar Shaikh

Why Not In Our Backyards?

Hannah Allen, Hannah Kim, Raphael Lopoukhine and Tim Sun

Why We Buy: A Systems View of Consumerism

Nicole Brkic, Martha Chomyn, Alejandra Farias, Razane Hanna and Amy Morrell

Women and Money: An investigation into gender disparity in financial literacy

Nikita Jaiswal and Tanishka Kacru

Reimagining the Futures Cone: Past, plurality, and perspective

Hillary Carey, Mihika Bansal, Chris Costes and Rachel Arredondo

Designing Against Oppression: A conceptual framework for an anti-oppressive design praxis

Jessica Jacobs and Hillary Carey

Gleaning Racial Justice Futures: Confronting the past and incorporating plural everydays

Hillary Carey, Chris Costes and Mihika Bansal

Leveraging Indigenous Knowledge, Collaboration, and Emergent Technology

Twisha Mehta and Jenny Bentley

Towards Speculative Services for an Inclusive Society: Understanding the relationships between systemic-, service- and speculative design

Zijun Lin, Beatrice Villari and Birger Sevaldson

Anti-Black Racism in Pittsburgh

This gigamap puts forward six interventions for anti-Black racism: affinity space creation, white supremacy education, colour-aware work programs, addressing redlining, a reparations system, and universal basic income.

Casually Cursed: Vocalizing experiences around casual discrimination amongst teenagers

This map is focused on teenage students who face discrimination in the form of name-calling, jokes and bullying. Casual discrimination almost always ends with the statement, “It was just a joke.”

Decolonizing Futures

Pupul Bisht: What does the future look like? Who owns/shapes these images of the future? Whose identity, knowledge, needs, and desires are not represented in these futures?