This work is placed within wider transdisciplinary relational design inquiry in the second book DESIGN FUTURES LITERACIES: ESSAYS & REFLECTIONS (VOL. 2). Here a weave of eight extended essays provides elaboration on pedagogies and practice, making, learning and reflection presented in Volume 1... Read »
DESIGN FUTURES LITERACIES: PRACTICES & PROSPECTS (VOL. 1) positions our funded collaborative project within discourses and practices of design education. It shifts it towards futures in design education and builds upon pedagogies and research on futures of design education. Detailed overviews are given of work carried out under five work packages mediated through the project website... Read »
This paper considers dynamics between Anticipatory Design and relational ontological scales in imagining, articulating and shaping futures. This includes speculative, experimental and experiential engagement with imaginary futures for rethinking relations to the present and beyond them into long term sustainable ones... Read »
Design universities face challenges to their curricula, pedagogies, research and professional practices in the context of a world beset by increased complexity and rapid change. In this framing type paper located in an experimental relational ontology we take up the context and conditions of such change and the development of what we term ‘design futures literacies’... Read »
Amanda Steggell is a Professor of Choreography at Oslo National Academy of Art and project leader of AMPHIBIOUS TRILOGIES project. As part of ongoing collaboration between AMPHIBIOUS TRILOGIES and FUEL4DESIGN: Future Education and Literacy for Designers, these series of workshops aimed to contribute to the DESIGN FUTURES LEXICON with movement words, called FUTURES DESIGN MOVEMENTS WORDS. Prof... Read »
The workshop drew on a device in the LEXICON called BALLUSION designed to help master’s level design students to look more closely at the role of language in their design project, big or small, and its relation to futures... Read »
The NEOLOGISER workshops build on the DESIGN FUTURES LEXICON and pay attention to the role of words as design material. The tool intends to help designers become more sensitive to the importance of words in shaping futures by highlighting that words are carriers and shapers of meaning... Read »
The BALLUSION workshop explores ‘balloons’ as a metaphor for shapeable futures. We take this up in the supporting Unit by asking: “If the balloon represents the future, how might we shape, twist, deflate, go, squeeze, bounce, tap, stretch or release it?” The workshop was designed with PhD students in mind... Read »
The DESIGN FUTURES LEXICON presents a set of thematic learning activities, futures design devices and instances of their use. The LEXICON is designed to assist design students and designer researchers to engage productively and critically with how language may work in shaping futures design... Read »
The DESIGN FUTURES LEXICON presents a set of thematic learning activities, futures design devices and instances of their use. The LEXICON is designed to assist design students and designer researchers to engage productively and critically with how language may work in shaping futures design. The THEMES AND UNITS contain a variety of learning resources for students of design and design research... Read »
Octopa’s Journey is a narrative game-tool inviting the player to browse the futures of the Northern Sea Route. Playing with Future Design Words and extended-choreographies, the experience is the online counterpart of the physical Octopa toolkit. .. Read »
As FUEL4DESIGN project members from AHO, we held a successful workshop on the Design Futures Lexicon at the 9th Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium at NID Ahmedabad, India, 9-17 October, 2020... Read »
REFLEXICON builds on the Lexicon of the Future Education and Literacy for Designers, and invites designers to play with future terms. It uses game play as a way to support designers on use and application of Futures Design terms and reflect on how their design project or activity work might relate to shaping future needs, conditions and challenges... Read »
The NORDES Summer School 2020 was a 3-day online event held on 5-7 August 2020, hosted by AHO and OsloMet in Norway. With the focus on ‘designing beyond the individual’, the summer school explored how the theme of COLLECTIVES may “inform design inquiry in shaping futures that are shared and honed for common interests, needs and purposes, not only competitive and collaborative ones... Read »
Movement matters enormously in every aspect of our lives and of the dynamics of the ecosphere and its complex systems and relations of inhabitants, human and nonhuman, psychological and systemic... Read »
Presentation by Andrew Morrison, AHO NARP Artistic Research Autumn Forum 2020, 14 October, 0900-1115 Commentator Synne Skjulstad / Moderator Merete Røstad .. Read »
This issue of Temes de Disseny addresses a mix of topics concerning how design literacies and design making may be understood as ‘future facing’. By doing so, we convey the ways and means design practice and design education may be positioned and activated to work prospectively and be ahead of current concerns with environmental, social and ethical challenges... Read »
Words and language are inextricably linked with a designer’s ability to shape futures, both productively and analytically. In this workshop, the participants will be introduced to a suite of tools curated for an exploration into the role of language within futures design projects... Read »
As the world in which we live becomes more complex and contested, economically and politically but also in terms of rapid and long-lasting environmental change, design education faces new demands and challenges. We frame and situate these in terms of what we call “design futures literacies... Read »