Designing a world of many centers… what does a world in which many worlds fit look like?
The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University together with The Pluriversal Design Special Interest Group of the Design Research Society (DRS) invite you to join us in jointly reimagining a world of many centers. We hosted a virtual un-conference on June 4, 2020 to encourage conversations around shifting centers, methods, epistemologies and ontologies. We invite you to pivot the discussion of decolonization from an academic critical perspective to a creative and generative one.
Read the Conference Overview, view Conference Organizers, watch videos of recorded presentations, and follow #pivot2020neworleans on Twitter.
All conference contributions are listed below.
Contributions
Click to download the Complete Proceedings of PIVOT 2020 (pdf)
- Land Acknowledgement (PDF)
- Opening Statement by Lesley-Ann Noel, Ph.D. (PDF)
- Introduction by Laura Murphy, Ph.D.
- Editorial: Pivot 2020 Proceedings by Renata M. Leitao, Ph.D. (PDF)
- List of References and Resources (PDF)
8AM (CDT): THE PLURIVERSE ALREADY EXISTS
- Prananda Luffiansyah Malasan – “The Role of Socio-technical Instruments in Craft and Design practice in Indonesia”
- Sucharita Beniwal – “New Worlds with Some Tinkering”
- Tanaya Lal – “The Democratization of Design”
- Nicola St. John – “Designing from Ntaria County — Centering a Western Arrarnta Imagining”
9AM (CDT): DECOLONIZING DESIGN EDUCATION
- Leigh Anne Hepburn – “Exploring Participatory Learning Opportunities Beyond the Institution“
- Lodaya Arvind – “Opening up our Gated Community”
- Sudebi Thakurata & Probal Banerjee – “Marketplace: a site of Learning”
- Lucia Trias – “Design Knowledge(s) – Reflections on decolonizing design, looking at the role of institutions in the construction of design knowledge in Uruguay”
- Clovis Nelson –“Defining the Value of Educational Equilibrium for Immigrant and At-Risk Youths Through Art Education in the 2020s and Beyond”
- Michael Gibson – “Challenging the Lies Protected by User-Friendly Design”
- Rafe Steinhauer – “Imagining (dis)topia: Community Work in Disability Love”
10:30AM (CDT): UNPACKING & RECENTERING PARTICIPATION
- Asnath Paula Kambunga –“Co-creating Inclusive Futures with Namibian Youth”
- Susan Wyche – “Using Cultural Probes in Design Research: A Case Study from Bungoma Kenya”
- Jose Cotto, Ann Yoachim, et. al – “Creating New Futures: Collaborative Design Practice”
- Laura Kozak, Jean Chisholm, & Charlotte Falk – “Sticks Ropes Land – Confronting Colonial Practices in Public Space Design”
- Colin Angevine – “Navigating Multiple Centers of Power in R&D for Public Education”
- Danielle Lake – “Redesigning Assessment and Research Through Design Thinking”
11:30AM (CDT): DIGITAL & EMERGING TECH
- Selwa Sweidan & Jessy Escobedo – “Prototyping a Micro-pluriverse: Performed Cosmologies to Decolonize Augmented Reality”
- Pelin Efilti & Gizem Celebi – “Redefining Domestic Craft Making”
- Nicole Lotz – “Inequalities in the participation in social learning and open innovation during crisis”
- Andréia De Bernardi – “Como A Palma Da Minha Mão: Memórias Para Redesenhar A Cidade (Like The Palm Of My Hand: Memories To Redesign The City)”
12:30PM (CDT): THE PLURIVERSE ALREADY EXISTS
- Britta Boyer – “Social sculptures as world making activity; creativity narratives from Bali”
- Laura Popplow – “Participatory transformations or: common Otherness”
- Alexandra Alden – “Designing to Shift Power”
- Maria Rogal – “Embracing Many Worlds”
2PM (CDT): DECENTERING FUTURES
- Masaki Iwabuchi & Daijiro Mizuno – “Speculation of the Purpose of Life in 2050 From Kyoto”
- Amy Twigger Holroyd – “Fashion Fictions: Exploring Alternative Fashion Worlds Together”
- Waldo Soto & Gabriela Carrasco – “Social Innovation Labs for Climate Action: South to South Collaboration to Tackle Climate Change”
- Gabriel Fernandes Cadoso & Ana Carolina Santana – “UDF’s Social Innovation Lab: decentralizing knowledge to co-design solutions” | “Laboratório de inovação social do UDF: descentralizando saberes para co-desenhar soluções”
- Isabel Prochner – “Starting a Feminist Design Think Tank: Workshop”
3PM (CDT): DECONSTRUCTING DESIGN & UNLEARNING HEGEMONY
- Jane Turner & Manuela Taboada – “Worlds and Words Interrogating Type and Map as Systems of Power and Embodied Meaning-Making”
- Qassim Saad – “The Emergence of Modern Design Discourse in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)”
- Jayasri Sridhar – “Linguistic Integration in India: A Persistence of Hegemony”
- Gloria Gomez – “Reflecting on How the Bridging Design Prototype Approach Could Contribute to the Concept of Autonomía”
- Omari Souza – “African Americans in Images, Stereotypes, and Symbolism”
- Rafe Steinhauer – “Imagining (dis)topia: Community Work in Disability Love”
4:30PM (CDT): WHAT’S OUR PLURIVERSAL PERSPECTIVE? REFLECTIONS ON PIVOT THE PLURIVERSE FROM THE ORGANIZERS!
- Laura Murphy – “A Glossary for the Pluriverse”
- Renata Marques Leitao – “Pluriversal design and desire-centered design”
- Lesley-Ann Noel – “Envisioning a Pluriversal Design Education”
