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Design, as a mode of inquiry, is well placed to deal with complexity and address the ‘wicked problems’ of the uncertainty of the future. Design Lab tries to offer a framework to connect communities with alternative visions of the future, supporting social and pedagogical imagination. For the production of knowledge, thinking through future(s) provides a critical revisiting of today and suggests that alternative futures could only be possible through radically changing our ways of life.
podcast: Design & Futures _ Pedagogical Perspective 🎧
With this podcast, we focus on the role of 'envisioning futures' in pedagogical settings and how ‘design thinking’ could be a catalyst and instigator to think and act differently.
featuring: Emre Akbil (Architecture & Landscape) and Dr Katherine Euston (Education)
facilitator: Dr Esra Can (Architecture & Landscape)
City-wide locally-led slum upgrading project, Jhenaidah, Bangladesh
Co-Creation Architects
key references:
Petrescu, D. (2024). Harnessing Design Research to Encourage Alternative Futures. Building & Cities (London: ubiquity press)
DelSesto, M. (2022). Design and the Social Imagination, Designing in Dark Times (London New York Oxford: Bloomsbury Visual Arts)
Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century (Durham: Duke University Press)
Wilkie, A., Savransky, M., and Rosengarten M. (eds.). (2019). Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures, Culture, Economy and the Social, First issued in paperback (London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group)
Hoffman, J. (2022). Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need (Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books)
future(s) tools & case studies
combining collective creativity and expertise to envision and prepare for multiple potential futures
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