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- Lindström, Kristina, et al.
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Un/Making the Plastic Straw : Designerly Inquiries into Disposability
- 2023
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Ingår i: Design and Culture. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1754-7075 .- 1754-7083. ; 15:3, s. 393-415
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article proposes un/making as a designerly response to urgent environmental issues. By focusing on the simultaneous constructive and destructive aspects of design, this effort attempts to challenge design's dominant focus on making new things. The implications and potentialities of un/making are explored through a designerly inquiry into ongoing and emerging attempts to ban the plastic straw. Based on this inquiry, the article proposes an approach to un/making that is driven by speculative, what if questions, informed by the history of the plastic straw: from coming into being to becoming preferable and now emerging as a matter of concern. Through a series of speculative design artifacts, the authors articulate matters at stake in the un/making of the plastic straw. They also show how these matters are a stake in the un/making of disposability as part of a preferable future. Rather than proposing one preferable future, the article highlights the frictions that emerge in un/making.
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- Ståhl, Åsa, 1976-
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Anchoring by Picking Stones : - on Design and Economics in Småland and Other Places
- 2023
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Ingår i: Småland & Sápmi. Sápmi & Småland. - Växjö/Kalmar : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789180820639 ; , s. 74-85
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter starts off in an excursion where design students were working on moving stones in a field. Some of the stones were small. One of them was big. It took a lot of effort and cooperation to shift the big one and move it off of the field. Where do international design programmes in Småland, based in Växjö and Kalmar, go on excursions to seek a better understanding of design and their own role as designers? We know about big furniture manufacturers, and we know about the proud traditions in glass. However, since the focal point for these classes was resilience1, the answer to the question became a combination of places in which dreams of alternative social orders have been expressed in writing, through agriculture, and in relationships that keep life going.
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- Ståhl, Åsa, 1976-
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Förankring genom stenplockning - om design och ekonomi i Småland och andra platser
- 2023
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Ingår i: Småland och Sápmi. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789180820639 ; , s. 60-73
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Det här kapitlet börjar i att bända upp stenar med designstudenter på exkursion. Några stenar var små. En var stor. Det behövdes mycket kraft och samarbete för att bända upp den stora ur fältet. Vart åker internationella designutbildningsprogram i Småland, baserade i Växjö och Kalmar, på exkursion för att förstå design och sin egen designerroll bättre? Vi känner till exempel till stora möbeltillverkare och vi känner till den stolta glastraditionen. Men eftersom fokus var på resiliens i de här lärandemomenten blev svaret en kombination av platser där drömmar om alternativa samhällen har tagit sig uttryck i skrift, odling och i relationer som får livet att fortgå.
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USK – A UIA Side Event
- 2023
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scandinavia is famous for its long summer days, the liminal time bridging sunny brightness with dark nights. DUSK then is the threshold, known for creating an atmosphere of calm openness, curiosity and exploration. We, the inviting actors are a collaboration in between ‘Skovhaven i byen’ / ‘Forest garden in the city’ with its anchoring in Copenhagen, the mobile exploratory household ‘Holding Surplus House’ featuring a research-based Tiny House on Wheels (THoW), the international multispecies collective ‘I.N.S.E.C.T’, and the ‘Living Textiles Collective’. We invite curious participants – no matter whether you’re already part of the Design and Posthumanism network – to gather for a string of sensory co-creative events: a ForestGardenSalon with conversations about urban biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics, Sensory Tours in which we guide visitors through the ForestGarden in mindful discovery, including sensory observations, meditation and creative expressions, a screening of the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp 2022 Documentary film, an exhibition of artefacts/works from the contributors that showcase multispecies relations, a workshop to make seasonal clothing for the Tiny House on Wheels itself and its inhabitants. One such making will be that of insulation panels that can host seeds and insects. This will be the time and place to explore an ecosystemic approach to life-sustaining co-living that strives to, as indicated through the UIA motto, “leave no one behind”. In this case it includes an invitation to multispecies wellbeing for flourishing biodiversity.
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- Laurien, Thomas, 1967, et al.
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An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape
- 2022
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Ingår i: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030426811 - 9783030426811 - 9783031049576 - 9783031049583
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A designer is somebody who points, who designates, and gives directions. Design thereby has a direction into the future. What directions are designers pointing out if design is coupled with posthumanism? Posthumanism has come into being in a landscape of both ideas and design. That which has previously been designed and produced is coming back and it can help us point out harmful inequalities if we sharpen our observational tools and concepts.“An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape” is an overflowing designated area for examples and thinking on compositions of design and critical posthumanism. It is a landscape in the making, yet scarred by previous design cultures and histories. As design researchers operating out of Scandinavian academia, we invite readers/travelers to meander through an emerging hybrid landscape and to make a few selected stops at the sites of our own recent design interventions. We articulate concepts, frictions, and opportunities sprouted in a sprawling and increasingly populated landscape of design and posthumanism. Posthumanist thinking questions and recharges fundamental design concepts and methods/approaches, e.g.: Who are the actors of posthumanist design? Where does it take place? What do we design? What materials do we use? How do we work? When does design take place? Why are compositions of design and critical posthumanism important undertakings? The responses to these questions sketch trajectories for further travels and the co-creation of an emerging posthumanist design landscape.
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- Sabie, Samar, et al.
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Unmaking@CHI : Concretizing the Material and Epistemological Practices of Unmaking in HCI
- 2022
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Ingår i: CHI EA '22. - New York, NY, USA : ACM Digital Library. - 9781450391566 ; , s. 1-6
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Design is conventionally considered to be about making and creating new things. But what about the converse of that process – unmaking that which already exists? Researchers and designers have recently started to explore the concept of “unmaking” to actively think about important design issues like reuse, repair, and unintended socio-ecological impacts. They have also observed the importance of unmaking as a ubiquitous process in the world, and its relation to making in an ongoing dialectic that continually recreates our material and technological realms. Despite the increasing attention to unmaking, it remains largely under-investigated and under-theorized in HCI. The objectives of this workshop are therefore to (a) bring together a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in exploring or showcasing the affordances of unmaking, (b) articulate the material and epistemological scopes of unmaking within HCI, and (c) reflect on frameworks, research approaches, and technical infrastructure for unmaking in HCI that can support its wider application in the field.
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- Jönsson, Li, et al.
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The thickening of futures
- 2021
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Ingår i: Futures. - : Elsevier. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 134:December
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper engages with biodiversity loss. In particular, it focuses on observations and scientific facts: the decline of pollinators and what that entails for the co-living of humans and more-than-humans. This kind of work often reaches the publics as thin stories of limited futures.The article explores how to situate the issue of out-of-sync plant–pollinator relationships into thick, ongoing presents rather than as a distant future that is out of one’s own hands. This is done through a collaborative design project that experiments with various formats for staging more material, embodied and experiential ways to sensitise and invite humans to experience the issue of pollination. We therefore explore and give an account of how we have situated the issues in a thick, ongoing present as an anticipatory practice. We thus suggest a practice that becomes both sticky and sweaty; in addition, the practice moves some pollination facts into not only matters of concern but also matters of care.In doing so, we forward the role that design researchers can play in environmental and collaborative anticipation by engaging with emerging approaches to both biodiversity loss and collaborative future-making that are simultaneously conflicting and harsh as well as hopeful.
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- Latva-Somppi, Riikka, et al.
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Entangled Materialities : Caring for soil communities at glass industry sites
- 2021
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Ingår i: FORMakademisk. - Oslo : Universitetsbiblioteket OsloMet. - 1890-9515 .- 1890-9515. ; 14:2, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses craft and design practices through their impact on the environment. We consider how to act concerning the consequences of the craft and design industry. Also, we reflect on the agency of our field of practice in changing how we perceive the environment. We present three case studies of the European glass industry sites in Sweden, Italy and Finland, where we study contamination of the soil with participatory, speculative and craft methods. Through these cases, we reflect on our role in soil communities and ask how we may act in them with responsibility, hope and care. We conclude by proposing to act locally, to share our practices and make them visible, expanding our situated, personal skills and knowledge towards the political.
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- Lindström, Kristina, et al.
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Living With
- 2020
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Ingår i: Transmissions. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press. - 9780262043403 ; , s. 131-151
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- Lindström, Kristina, et al.
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Un/making
- 2020
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Ingår i: Glossary. - : Malmö University. ; , s. 33-33
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