Pluriversal design and desire-based design: desire as the impulse for human flourishing

Leitão, Renata Marques

doi:10.21606/pluriversal.2020.011

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“…All together open the door for re-visioning design in ontological terms. Pluriversal design attitudes do not aim to provide solutions to all problems rather the outcome is the question that triggers the visioning and change (Leitão, 2020).…”

Section: Pluriversal Design -A World Where Many Worlds Fit Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Design Attitudes for Pluriverse: Review & Introduction to Industry Practice

Kuriakose

2023

Blucher Design Proceedings

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Why do more complex problems arise the more we design? What are the design attitudes for societal transitions? How are they connected? How can we transcend such approaches to develop an attitude in professional practice? This study explores why we need better design interventions and also evaluates, differentiates, and simplifies the contemporary design attitudes that are shaped across the globe in the last decades which helps in solving complex or wicked problems for a better future. It also tries to find commonalities and differences between Ontological design, Speculative design, Pluriversal design, and Transition design as approaches and links its connectedness to Pluriversal thinking. In the final part, it talks about the learnings in developing these approaches in the industry.

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Section: Pluriversal Design -A World Where Many Worlds Fit Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Design Attitudes for Pluriverse: Review & Introduction to Industry Practice

Kuriakose

2023

Blucher Design Proceedings

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“…The pluriverse considers the interconnection between humans and non-humans and the connection to nature, embracing diverse onto-epistemologies and ways of perceiving the world that are in constant transformation and balance. This concept is reflected in the Zapatista slogan un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos (a world where many worlds can fit) and has been echoed by activists and scholars (Castro-Gómez & Grosfoguel, 2007;De la Cadena & Blaser, 2018;Kothari et al, 2019;Leyva et al, 2015;Walsh, 2017), and most recently, by design (Escobar, 2018;Leitão, 2020;Noel, 2020). The pluriverse recognizes "a multipolar world order (de-Westernization) and epistemic and ontological pluriversality" (Mignolo & Walsh, 2018, p. 228), as well as the co-existence of different dimensions of the seen and the unseen, as explained by Battiste: Indigenous people's epistemology is derived from the immediate ecol-ogy; from peoples' experiences, perceptions, thoughts, and memory, including experiences shared with others; and from the spiritual world discovered in dreams, visions, inspirations, and signs interpreted with the guidance of healers or elders.…”

Section: Pluriversal: Many Worlds Dimensions Paradoxesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diálogos Sur-Sur en torno al diseño centrado en el buen vivir

González

Campbell

2022

Diseña

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Utilizando una metodología dialógica, en este artículo discutimos nuestras experiencias de investigación doctoral y nuestros posicionamientos en dos contextos diferentes del Sur Global, en los que trabajamos con comunidades históricamente marginadas. La primera voz, originada en México, exploró la descolonización del diseño y los conocimientos textiles mayas en colaboración con un colectivo dirigido por mujeres en los Altos de Chiapas. La segunda voz, originada en Sudáfrica, exploró colaborativamente la innovación tecnológica de los pequeños agricultores urbanos. El diálogo reflexiona sobre el “uno con el todo”, la colectividad, la condición de resource(ful) o lleno de recursos, lo pluriversal y el equilibrio como principios rectores del diseño centrado en el buen vivir, lo que nos permite reflexionar sobre nuestros estudios. Discutimos los aprendizajes y las transformaciones en nuestra investigación en diseño, que transitó desde los enfoques dominantes hacia las formas indígenas y endógenas de conocer, ser y hacer.

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“…Futures design can be considered an asset based approach where the aspirational asset is the shared vision of the future. Pluriversal design seeks to create alternative and multiple modes and ways of being and living in the world according to the values and identities of various communities (Escobar, 2018;Leitão, 2020). Pluriversal design is "a desire-based approach" that opens up the pluriverse, a multiplicity of possibilities, or a world of many worlds which can all be good and different (Escobar, 2018;Leitão, 2020).…”

Section: Beyond Inclusive and Human Centered Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pluriversal design seeks to create alternative and multiple modes and ways of being and living in the world according to the values and identities of various communities (Escobar, 2018;Leitão, 2020). Pluriversal design is "a desire-based approach" that opens up the pluriverse, a multiplicity of possibilities, or a world of many worlds which can all be good and different (Escobar, 2018;Leitão, 2020). It is much harder to move from a damage-centered or conventional needs-based approach to a pluriversal, desire-based approach or a future vision, asset-based approach when the community's desires and vision of the future are not represented and voiced in every activity, phase, and interactivity moment of planning and decision-making.…”

Section: Beyond Inclusive and Human Centered Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Radical Participatory Design

Udoewa

2022

JASC

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Design has been a massive failure. It has functioned in the service of industry and capitalism, leaving us a world with several crises which we are failing to resolve. The onto-epistemic framework out of which this type of design injustice emerges is coloniality, highlighting a trans-locally experienced truth: our ontologies are our epistemologies. And our onto-epistemologies are our namologies–studies, perspectives, types, or ways of designing. If we instead embody an onto-epistemic framework of relationality, our design process becomes radically participatory. Radical Participatory Design (RPD) is meta-methadology that is participatory to the root or core. Using the models “designer as community member,” “community member as designer,” and “community member as facilitator,” RPD prioritizes relational, cultural, and spiritual knowledge, as well as lived experiential knowledge, over mainstream, institutional knowledge. Based on the experiential knowledge of employing radical participatory design over many years, we have induced a characteristic definition of RPD. Through an awareness of participation, we discuss the various benefits of RPD including genuine inclusion, true human-centeredness, moving beyond human-centeredness, embedded empathy, trauma-responsive design, and systemic action. We discuss the ethics of Radical Participatory design from both an equality and equity perspective. We offer ways of evaluating the success of the radically participatory design process. Lastly, we discuss the barriers and ways we have overcome them in our projects.

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Pluriversal design and desire-based design: desire as the impulse for human flourishing

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Contemporary Design Attitudes for Pluriverse: Review & Introduction to Industry Practice

Contemporary Design Attitudes for Pluriverse: Review & Introduction to Industry Practice

Diálogos Sur-Sur en torno al diseño centrado en el buen vivir

Radical Participatory Design

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