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. Through a mix of presentational modes, the essays enact a situated, relational and collaborative design rhetoric that articulates dynamics in working with futures and design as learning and compositional materials. In so doing, futures and literacies are positioned as plural, situated and located within emergent acts and processes of becoming geared towards supporting wider creative-critical knowing connected to 21st design literacies. Such acts and processes are located within learning and teaching through anticipatory designing. They draw together creative, critical imaginaries in shaping shared futures by design in working towards alternative presents and actionable futures.