Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures
Research Project
Facts
- Contact person:
- Li Jönsson
- Financer:
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- Swedish Research Council
- Responsible at MaU:
- Kristina Lindström
- Project members at MaU:
- External project members:
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- Åsa Ståhl -Linnaeus University
- Maria Göransdotter - Umeå University
- Thomas Laurien - Gothenburg University
- Time frame:
- 01 July 2023 - 31 December 2029
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- Research subject:
Project description
Design after Progress: reimagining design histories and futures is a research environment that seeks to carefully untie design’s entanglement with progress and to craft concrete imaginaries of a more socio-ecologically just design after progress.
The research environment consists of researchers from four different Swedish design departments. The aim of the research environment is to explore how to:
- learn to become better haunted in design by attending to the ecologies of damage left behind by progress and industrialisation.
- develop and articulate skills, competencies, capabilities, and concepts necessary for designing after progress.
The research environment works in a participatory and democratic way in three different experimental rehearsal studios with the purpose of influencing future designers:
- Present-ing Alternative Design Histories by historicising participation and design.
- Prefiguring Design Practices after Progress with design experiments.
- Unlearning Pedagogies for Design after Progress with opportunities for international designers and design researchers to learn to make the world differently.