Whilst design discourse tends to reify the commons as a utopian site of potentially emancipatory ways of living, commons are…
FLUX Symposium of Design ’22
This is the outline for a forthcoming panel event and one-day symposium being hosted by Loughborough University during 2022 on…
On the Politics of Design Framing Practices
In a forthcoming paper that will be published in Design Issues this year, we set out an argument to deconstruct…
From Publics to Counterpublics
Design scholarship frequently concerns itself with the question of publics. However, in wider social theory there is a significant body…
Commons as Infrastructure for New Economies
I am currently developing work that explores the ways in which design can be understood as a social process of…
Counter-Framing the New Economy
On April 23, 2021, I delivered a talk with my colleague Dr Pandora Syperek at the Design and Economics Unconference, on…
Democratic Dialogues in Urban Commons
On November 27, 2020, I spoke at the RGCS-OWEE symposium ‘Embodying Ecological Stakes of Our Time’ on the urban commons…
Counter-Framing Design
Counter-Framing Design aims to theorise the politics of design framing practice by deconstructing the ways in which design practices institutionalise…
Seminar Series 2020: Designing the Commons
This seminar series is organised by the Institute for Design Innovation, Loughborough University London as part of the ‘Counter-Framing Design‘…
Design and Crisis Reading Group
The last two decades have seen a variety of escalating crises globally. In this academic year we will look into…
Design Dissonance 