Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd39.2023.248-269
Angela Mackey, Monserrat Vallejo de la Guarda, O. Tomico, Ron Wakkary, T. Nachtigall, Martijn De Waal
In this article we examine the experiences of the first and second author who have changed themselves to become newly attuned to the sun, or who have “become solar”. Motivated by calls to approach solar design in novel, less technocratic ways, we reflect on their one-year journey to gain a new relationship with solar energy as an explicitly more-than-human design (MTHD) approach. We argue that their perception of solar energy progressively worked to decentre them as human actors in this new solar-energy arrangement, revealing other nonhuman actors at play, instigating situations of care and attention to those nonhumans and ultimately guiding them towards what it means to be solar. For solar design, we see this approach as creating a new lens for solar designers to draw from. For MTHD, we see this acting as a practical example for designers seeking to begin transforming themselves in their own practice by taking initial steps towards a MTHD approach.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd39.2023.198-207
Jack Isles, Michael McMahon
Within an Australian context, the realisation of decarbonised and de-colonial futures requires scrutiny of the socio-political industrial complex upon which the contemporary Australian settler-colonial project was founded. Central to this scrutiny is the need to investigate, contemplate and address a history of systemic racial violence and its impact on Country. Diversities of Design explores the capacity for the entangled fields of design, architecture and environmental planning to celebrate and empower oppressed Indigenous and First Nations peoples and expertise. This article seeks to highlight the contemporary value of indigenous expertise through the lens of current projects in environmental design, exploring how contemporaneous and historical traditions, technologies and voices can coalesce within the context of net zero transitions and the emergent habitats of the Anthropocene.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd39.2023.40-51
Ramon Faura Coll
Unlike a poem or a song, an object (designed and produced) and a space (designed and constructed) are invariably permeated by the power relations that have made them possible. For, regardless of the intention of the participating agents, designs cannot help but convey the values that sustain, justify and prolong the power relations that have facilitated their existence. With this in mind, especially in the case of the new digital technologies, designers, beyond simply offering a final solution, are increasingly concerned with controlling and influencing the parts of the production process where the social, labour and ecological implications determine, more than just the form itself, the ethical and political value of the design. And of all the political aspects involved in the design process, one holds particular importance: environmental conservation. The immediacy of the environmental crisis that faces us begs the question: what if, instead of coming up with new designs, we devise a way to not design? We cease to produce. There are many examples of this. After all, any product, no matter how small its ecological footprint, will always be pollutant if its purpose is superfluous and non-essential. Other cultures and time periods, such as the Japanese culture prior to the 1960s, demonstrate how some products we believe to be essential are in fact contingent and could quite easily not exist at all. Chairs are a prime example of this.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd39.2023.176-197
Oorvi Sharma
The politics of infrastructure lies at the influx of a range of interconnected, yet chasm-riddled disciplinary silos. Thus, infrastructures take time to conceive, build, maintain and update. As such, infrastructures become long-standing relics in the built environment and witness socio-political, climatic and temporal change while remaining relatively frozen in their morphology. There is merit in considering how infrastructures of the future might learn from unprecedented occupation and civilian alteration - events that exceed the single-use capacities of network infrastructures - to become more informed and representative of past, current and future politics. In particular, there is merit in analysing recent shifts in contemporary politics that incited global instances of occupational dissent and civil mobilization by employing tactics and strategies to meet unforeseen needs. Two urgent, contemporary examples of these infrastructural adjustments were the Dilli Chalo protests in North India in 2020-2021 and the pedestrian exodus of migrant workers at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Within the scope of these events, this essay seeks to explain some region-specific and contemporary revelations that can be drawn from the ways in which the protestors and occupants of these infrastructural artifacts informed creative street-centric dissent within the finite set of modelled scenarios as programmed and designed by architects and designers This essay is bolstered by a central proposition: there are many instances where, in the South Asian context, the street has historically encapsulated demonstrative emerging political hegemonies, where the negotiation of existing infrastructures to support multiple functions - both spatial and social - was central to future political dialogue. The civil redesign of existing infrastructures in these contemporary scenarios came to alter the local, street-level exercise of autonomy. Both revolutions, the migrant exodus and the farmers’ protests, though differentiated by their initial reactions and causes, ultimately demonstrated the Indian public’s right to the city.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd38.2022.116-131
Nadia Campo Woytuk, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard
Biomenstrual is a Research through Design project for imagining, designing and practicing menstrual care beyond the human body. Drawing from feminist posthumanist theories that address the multispecies entanglements and ecologies our bodies form part of, we use design practice to research how caring for one’s menstrual health might extend to caring for the environment and the planet’s wellbeing. Motivated by existing practices of using menstrual blood as a fertilizer, and by the current landscape of unsustainable disposable menstrual products, we designed biodegradable menstrual pads and speculate on the practices and tools that are part of this fabrication process. We introduce and imagine a cyclical process where the biodegradable absorbent materials in menstrual care products are gathered, assembled into pads, used and discarded together with the body’s materials (menstrual blood, mucus and tissue) not as waste, but as fertilizer and compost, nourishing the soil and the species the biomaterials were first obtained from. In this pictorial, we present this design process, including the resulting biomaterial experiments, recipes, tools and speculative scenarios of decomposition. The project is taking place in Nordic ecologies where we are working in close relation with the local species of sphagnum moss and gluten extracted from wheat, which we have used as superabsorbent materials in the menstrual pads. From our own kitchens turned into biomaterial engineering and design labs, the Biomenstrual project probes the relationships between lab-based experimentation and cooking and crafting in the home, drawing from the figure of the witch, the empirical and resourceful woman attending to both her own body and the bodies of other species.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd38.2022.92-115
R. Paez, Manuela Valtchanova
This article investigates some of the implications of intimate design practices by presenting two academic projects carried out within the context of an uncertain present. It argues that design practices have the capacity to foster intimacy and affect through the lens of the politics of care. Drawing on the notion of affective bodies, the authors claim that design can explore new paths to reinvent the everyday, focusing on recent crisis-ridden contexts. The article examines how intimate practices that reformulate everyday politics can reclaim temporality, active citizenship and radical affectivity as infrastructural needs in contemporary urban habitats. The two case studies date from March 2020 through December 2021 under the climate of crisis brought about by the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Western Europe and the ongoing Mediterranean refugee crisis. Given the escalation of the blurring between the private and public spheres, the personal and the political, it is especially relevant to explore intimacy as a means of enacting politically empowered action through design. Both case studies aim to temporarily interrupt conventional uses of collective urban spaces in order to generate pockets of resistance that explore the subliminal potentials of urban spaces and allow us to imagine, and even experience, different ways of living through an updated lens of care. These irruptions of intersubjective appropriations of urban spaces not only have an emblematic impact, but also a cumulative effect by generating a growing network of affective bodies in action. This emergent affective network offers relevant opportunities for the transformation of crisis-ridden urban contexts through dynamic interactions between sociality and spatiality.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd38.2022.8-19
D. Wilde, Anna Del Corral, E. Silvestre, Ricardo Guasch Ceballos
This issue of Temes de Disseny focuses on the contribution of design in promoting caring for life in all its manifestations and for the environment. In other words, caring for the entire planet. At a time when human health is in the spotlight more than ever, it is important to consider design within an interplay of different disciplines as societies worldwide strive to meet the Sustainable Development Goals while staying within the planetary boundaries. The aim of this issue is to bring a series of design and research perspectives to the forefront to plant the seed for new ideas about what might help designers become agents of change in the global health landscape.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd38.2022.20-45
A. Pujadas
The aim of this article is to explore the possibility of designing from the perspective of care. The article addresses the concept of care throughout the history of design for well-being. The text illustrates the principal concepts of the ethics of care and applies them to the philosophy of design. Vulnerability is considered an indispensable moral position to design from care, and narration is considered a design method from the care philosophy point of view. In addition, the article offers examples of designers with a conception consistent with the ethics of care. Through various examples of designers, this article discusses what it would mean to think from the perspective of care in the field of design.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd38.2022.64-91
Elizabeth Shirrell, Daniel Verbit, Monique C. Chabot
Low levels of health literacy directly correlate to increased mortality rates, decreased health outcomes and overall poorer quality of life. Many social determinants of health can place someone at a higher risk of low health literacy and the negative consequences of decreased skills in this area. Health literacy is a complex task that requires a multi-modal approach and interventions within a variety of spheres of influence in someone’s life. To address this issue in underinvested communities within their own city, teams of Visual Communication Design and Occupational Therapy students, with the support of their faculty and a librarian, worked together to identify a population of interest and pertinent health-related concerns. The result was an interdisciplinary team of students who utilised aspects of the Social Ecology Theory to create solutions and systems that utilised printed and digital modalities at the individual and community levels. This case study offers a model for interdisciplinary collaboration to address health literacy and improve the health outcomes of the population concerned.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.46467/tdd38.2022.46-63
Tessira Crawford
This paper shares observations of the limitations of the existing design practice within architecture for the inclusive design of space and architecture. This paper specifically focuses on what could be missing during the study of perception within architecture, among observations of architects’ simplification of phenomenology and tools that visualise phenomena. This paper reflects on an ongoing case study of Matt, a YouTuber diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, and the potential bias within today’s architectural design process. Openly acknowledging this bias will begin limiting its potential, encouraging the observation of others as unique – inclusively studying perception in architecture – and proposing the assessment of theories, methods and tools in architectural phenomenology – continuously testing their inclusivity to eliminate notions of an ideal.
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