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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

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'How do you start something when you know the foundations are wrong?' (Insights from Interviews)

In case you missed it first time round, last year we ran a research-through-design workshop with grassroots design organisers to map #discourses of #alternativeeconomics. We used 'countering' as a lens and design concept to explore organising practices through an object mapping exercise and as a concept to experiment and 'think with', to co-design interventions in economic discourses. Read more at our Linktree.

A houseplant is framed as a houseplant, no longer wild, no longer in its original context, contained and usually individualized, in a pot, and by itself in that pot. Pots designate plants as “exotic”, i.e. not able to survive outdoors, as objects of admiration, as decor, as distinct from being framed as wild, as obstructions, as agricultural work...

We're busy preparing materials for our upcoming design practitioner workshop focused on how #framing and counter-framing can be harnessed as design concepts to think and with. #DesignConcepts #CriticalPractice #Semiotics #DesignPractices

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