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The Optimism of Design Commons Discourse

Whilst design discourse tends to reify the commons as a utopian site of potentially emancipatory ways of living, commons are … More

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

collective action, design + politics, design research, design theory, frame innovation, ideology, positionality, social movements

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

Counterframes, Counterpublics, design + democracy, Design Politics, DesignPublics, Dewey, Mouffe, social movements

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

citizen engagement, design + activism, design + democracy, design + politics, placemaking, prefigurative politics

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

commons, counter-framing design, design, design + activism, design + politics, politics, social movements

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

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Countering as a Practice in Design Movements', in three Acts. #Community #Codesign #Movements #Frames #EastLondon
Movement might encapsulate grassroots organising, labour movements, human and more-than-human migration, and more. Over the past years, the Counter-Framing Design team developed a conceptual practice to aid designers with understanding the politics of design. Counter-Design complicates and untangles the more or less visible norms and privileges by which we live, take on roles, and make choices, both in times of crises and the everyday.
Check out the amazing upcoming Commons in Design conference hosted by @research.design.practices.
'How do you start something when you know the foundations are wrong?' (Insights from Interviews)
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