This paper documents a Conversation Track at the Design Research Society Conference 2024, Boston U.S.A..
Abstract
How might we use systemic constellation mapping to represent complex societal and multi-actor issues that describe social, climate and economic in/justices, to better understand how design can make a difference? This conversation addresses ‘transformative futures’ by adopting an expanded position to place the individual positionality of the designer into a constellation in which their opinions of the ways the world could or ought to be, come into tension with other conditions and actors (human and more-than-human) through the forming of ‘systemic constellations’. The conversation will use bodystorming methodologies to enquire into the representation of social, climate and economic in/justices, and asks us to reflect on the implications of design as it attempts to intervene.
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Speed, C., Light, A., Siodmok, A., Teasley, S., Vaughan, L., Gray, C., Forlano, L., Lindstrom, K., and Lockton, D. (2024) Mapping Constellations for Transformative Futures’, in Gray, C., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1527