Whilst design discourse tends to reify the commons as a utopian site of potentially emancipatory ways of living, commons are … More
Author: Sharon Prendeville
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 … More
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 … More
From Publics to Counterpublics
Design scholarship frequently concerns itself with the question of publics. However, in wider social theory there is a significant body … More
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 … More
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 … More
Counter-Framing Design
Counter-Framing Design aims to theorise the politics of design framing practice by deconstructing the ways in which design practices institutionalise … More
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‘ … More
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 … More
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 … More
Design Dissonance 