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no attempt to put the ideas into practice the list above is a partial list of the various ways that the appropriation of the language of justice and sustainability devalues the work of scholars and activists who leading these movements this list describes just a few ways appropriation can happen in academic spaces appropriation not only delays or wrecks progressive movements but it also harms individuals working often on the margins for social change appropriation was a dominant theme in the fishbowl as those who have been involved with building capacity for social change in design witness the appropriation of their work also speaking to the theme of justice was lesley ann noel who described the work of moving beyond good intentions learning how to see oppression so we don t reproduce it noel highlighted arturo escobar s version of the pluriverse in design theory and asked could design be guided by different design principles noel presented her positionality wheel as a tool to prompt reflection and better understand power agency and relationality another highlight was mathilda tham s keynote with her earth logic proposal and metadesign practice there were many helpful reflections here the idea about the importance of self definition see below for feminist designers struck me as particularly helpful and echos noel s ideas on positionality especially for designers who are advocating on behalf of traditionally marginalised groups danah abdula described the contradictions of sustainability in graphic design this keynote illustrated the various ways graphic design is so complicit with greenwashing but also potentially able to help re imagine and remake the material world abdula s presentation illustrated the politics in communication design and how agency is diminished with uncritical approaches to communication design the article against performative positivity captures these themes in more detail peter stoyko presented his new pattern atlas that i highly recommend checking out for those interested in systems and or illustration there are lots of creative commons resources here that can be freely used in systems mapping and other work also see chantal spencer s paper on participatory research with insights on inclusive practices finally system design association s board chair silvia barbero discussed the role of designers and systemic design in planetary health using the planetary health framework she played the nature is speaking video below i am sharing here as a good example of story telling on the environment for rsd11 colleagues please forgive me but i can only capture a few moments of so much good content this blog is very partial i have not even made time to describe my own mini workshops on net zero or a second one on design education these were good too i want to thank the whole team at the university of brighton for hosting such a great event also thanks to everyone involved with building the systemic design association from scratch over the last 11 years i have learned to much from this community since i attended rsd1 is olso and this was probably the best conference yet papers and posters are on the sda website november 4 2022 by dr joanna boehnert categories design education feminism systemic design uncategorized leave a comment beyond anthropocene ontopolitics last week i presented a keynote at the design history society annual 2022 conference in ismir turkey on the theme of design and transience my talk was called design history and design futures beyond anthropocene ontopolitics i used the time to consider how design history might look at design artefacts and designed systems if we were to consider all design through the lens of ecological entanglement this is not a minor difference from the current way of thinking about design design has a pivotal role to play in creating new sustainable ways of living on this planet but changing direction in design involves moving away from some of the assumptions that are propelling unsustainable and defuturing design practice design is evolving in response to debates that have emerged over the past 50 years as the sciences the social sciences and the arts integrate ecologically engaged ways of knowing into knowledge systems that have traditionally erased the ecological this theory can inform the dialogue between design history and design futures examining the assumptions embedded in ideas priorities and value systems that inform design history we can potentially create space for new agencies for regenerative design futures in response to feedback i received at the conference i am going to develop the paper by applying the theory to some historic examples of good design if we apply a lens consistent with anthropocene ontopolitics many examples of good design will need to be re evaluated i am interested in your opinions readers so if you have any examples of design artefacts that should be evaluated through the lens of ecological entanglement please feel free to comment below or message me i ve uploaded design history and design futures beyond anthropocene ontopolitics keynote for the design history society s 2022 annual conference on design and transience to slideshare link below i ve only included slides with quotes along with ai images they can be downloaded my own words will be in the upcoming paper september 15 2022 by dr joanna boehnert categories climate change design ecological literacy uncategorized leave a comment power and politics in design for transition research perspectives in the era of transformations five papers have just been published with our editorial from the power and politics in design for transition track at loughborough university s research perspectives in the era of transformations conference 19 21 june 2019 hajira qazi and sofia bosch gomez on political practice in design in the power and politics in transition design track adim2019 pic twitter com tp5jjiqqrg dr joanna boehnert ecocene june 21 2019 the politics of design transitions remains marginal in design research with our call we hoped to receive contributions that problematised design s current roles and conceptualised new roles for design in the context of sustainability transitions to attend to issues related to how power is and should be dealt with the disconnect between design practice and political interests the need for a long term political engagement as design practice bosch gomez sofia and qazi hajira in pursuit of design led transitions price rebecca anne on transforming transition design from promise to practice van selm maaike and mulder ingrid personal political professional a practice in transition wallace niki the influence of design thinking tools on ngo accountability andrawes ledia a mcmurray adela b and gemse r gerda smashing power and politics of transition design panel adim2019 arijah_q nikiwallace pic twitter com lida6jamnx dr joanna boehnert ecocene june 21 2019 learning to take action strikingly illustrated phd project by nikiwallace on the personal political and professional transition theorising the double bind in our track power and politics in transition design track adim2019 pic twitter com f3ugzyolgz dr joanna boehnert ecocene june 21 2019 track chairs joanna boehnert loughborough university idil gaziulusoy aalto university finland dan lockton carnegie mellon university usa ida nilstad pettersen ntnu norwegian university of science and technology matt sinclair loughborough university doi https doi org 10 33114 adim 2019 2d continue reading december 16 2019 by dr joanna boehnert categories uncategorized leave a comment the role of the media in the elections 2019 approach media speculations about the cause labour defeat with great skepticism they will not own the way they have vilified the left labour movement and destroyed this opportunity to create a fairer society and address climate change over the next decade we did not lose because of corbyn we have lost this election because 40 years of neoliberalism have greatly diminished living standards for the majority hollowed out the media and left people without access to the information and analysis they need to resist the political forces that will now take apart the nhs sell off public services avoid climate action etc research at loughborough university has demonstrated how n egativity toward labour in press in this election campaign outstrips all other party s the overall high level of negativity towards the labour party has remained constant throughout the election campaign increasing week by week manifesto and policy announcements have not managed to reverse this trend over the course of the campaign figure 1 overall newspaper evaluations weeks 1 4 unweighted there is precious little left wing mainstream media to offer effective counter analysis as both the bbc and the guardian have been dominated by the viciously anti jc centre right the corbyn supporting social movement that tried to resist these forces did everything we could to bring counter analysis and narratives to people s doorsteps over the last month it was not enough no where was that more apparent than in south thanet where our brilliant labour candidate was defeated by a corrupt conservative quietly enabling the destruction of local health services continue reading december 16 2019 by dr joanna boehnert categories uncategorized leave a comment ecocene design economies i am attending the ead2019 this week in dundee where i will present my paper ecocene design economies three ecologies of systems transitions i am publishing the link to this paper here ecocene design economies three ecologies of systems transitions despite accumulative social and technological innovation the design industry continues to face significant obstacles when addressing issues of sustainability climate change and other systemic ecological problems demands shifts on an order of magnitude well beyond the trajectory of business as usual i will argue that these complex problems require addressing the epistemological error in knowledge systems reproducing unsustainable designed worlds ecological literacy is a basis for nature inspired design ecologically engaged knowledge must inform design strategies across the psychological the social and the environmental domains with the expansive three ecologies perspective interventions at the intersection of design and economics can enable systems transitions this theoretical work informs a framing of the current epoch in ways that create a foundation for the creation of regenerative distributed and redirected design economies april 11 2019 by dr joanna boehnert categories uncategorized leave a comment feminist pedagogy and strategies of denial enabling difficult confrontations for intergeneration solidarity and survival presentation at the critical pedagogies in the neoliberal university expanding the feminist theme in the 21st century art and design school session aah2019 brighton april 2019 i will use this paper to reflect on tensions between generations of feminists with a focus on strategies of denial and their toll on the goals of feminist movements feminists movements have historically worked with varying degrees of success to end the normalisation of denial of social injustices and symbolic structural and or actual violence feminist pedagogy must intensify challenges to various manifestations of denial responsible for reproducing patriarchy oppressive social relations and ecocide this paper will address denial in the face of divisive issues such as the me too movement the precarity faced by younger generations and the intersections of patriarchy and ecological crises it is based on my personal experience as a daughter of a feminist academic in canada as a student at art school and my current role as lecturer in design education oriented towards social and environmental justice solidarity and even survival depends on our ability to make confrontations with disturbing information a catalyst for change the lessons learned from feminist struggles inform the work of confronting oppressions including those on issues of environment justice https www slideshare net ecolabs slideshelf my experiences have led me to the conclusion that many if not most oppressive behaviours and attitudes are rooted in various types of denial and unconscious bias both are deep seated forces that prevent many of us and especially those with more privilege from seeing things that disturb our self image feminist strategies such as transformative learning help us negotiate these difficult confrontations these are needed now more than ever in higher education and beyond unfortunately neoliberal modes of governance all but destroy opportunities for transformative learning https www slideshare net ecolabs slideshelf april 7 2019 by dr joanna boehnert categories climate change design activism ecological literacy education environmental communication feminism political activism tags ecopedagogy leave a comment within the anthropocene beyond the capitalocene towards the ecocene politics of in the anthropocene design for entanglements london conference in critical thought book talk at cliffs margate june 2018 photo by dave elliot within the anthropocene beyond the capitalocene towards the ecocene upcoming paper at london conference in critical thought politics of in the anthropocene 3 design for entanglements 29 30 june 2018 university of westminster 309 regent street london w1b 2hw the global challenges of the anthropocene demand shifts on an order of magnitude well beyond the trajectory of business as usual ecomodernists fantasies of technological salvation are unhelpful when they sideline work undoing the assumptions that created the conditions of the anthropocene in the first place erroneous ideas are embedded in the cultural fabric the laws policies and practices that determine how we live and act upon our surrounding lifeworld the inevitable contradictions are increasingly dysfunctional the capitalocene concept moore 2014 more helpfully highlights the specific socio political dynamics that propel environmental crises yet there are limitations to this critical approach while defining the problem it is does less well envisioning viable alternatives ecological theorists gregory bateson and felix guattari offer a foundation for approaching these contradictions by thinking simultaneously about three interconnected domains the self the social and the ecological conjoining these three ecologies this paper will describe the contours of an emergent ecocene boehnert 2018 as a generative alternative moving beyond the limitations of reductionist models of the human psyche and knowledge systems design interventions must nurture relational perception and foster new sensibilities as subjects opening inward in participation with our surrounding lifeworlds intersectional solidarity demands engaged encounters with oppressions that threaten collective futures the ecocen...