This article explores how engagement with tangible design artefacts can invite, and sustain
focus on, the different professional perspectives that emerge in multi-stakeholder …

This paper presents an anthropological design fiction envisioning a future hybrid city where
3D virtual city models and physical reality are intertwined seamlessly. The crafted fiction …

As professionally trained designers position their practices as central to social change, they
bring with them efficiency in process, technical expertise, sophisticated aesthetic skills, and …

Many of the techniques service designers currently use to represent their ideas in the
conceptual phase of their design process, such as service blueprints or customer journey …

This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested,
contingent and contradictory. In this context, how can we sharpen our sensitivity to the role …

In this paper, I suggest that there is an urgent need to design new spaces and possibilities
for democratic participation. With inspiration from the tradition of “adventure playgrounds”, I …

This paper proposes a design anthropology critique of active aging as ageism in the design
of information technologies for seniors. With ageism we refer to narratives coalesced around …

Sustainability is a catchword for contemporary concerns of environmental and societal
vulnerability. Scholars, policymakers, designers, and educators alike find themselves …

Too often, designers rely on rationalist notions of their work: from planning to execution, from
theory to practice, from strategy to execution, from problems to solutions, from thinking to …

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 inspired this pictorial, which weaves together a
number of technologies to tell a story about life in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the …