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When is the pluriverse?

Faculty Advisor

Date

2023

Keywords

pluriversal futures, design education futures, design education pasts, ontological design, decolonizing design

Abstract (summary)

Currently design is in the midst of several potential upheavals including the postcolonial, decolonial, ontological, and pluriversal turns. This conversation among design educators explores these turns under the inclusive umbrella of pluriversal design by focusing specifically on the temporality of the pluriverse in design education. By engaging in communal sensing, living in a world of many worlds, we relationally engage and question whether pluriversal design is a struggle for emergence, a past history, a possible future, a current reality, some combination, or something else entirely for design education? The reason we find this question important is because it determines what we do today, as design educators across many worlds. If the pluriverse is truly a future experience that we do not have today, we want to know what we need to do today to aid its arrival in design education. We engaged in an asynchronously written conversation in which Victor Udoewa, served as a facilitator and complicator of a conversation between design educators Adolfo Ruiz, Alfredo Gutierrez Borrero, Arvind Lodaya, Frederick van Amstel, Lesley-Ann Noel, and Nii Bostway.

Publication Information

Udoewa, V., GutiƩrrez Borrero, A., Noel, L., Ruiz, A., Borchway, N. K., Lodaya, A., & Van Amstel, F. M. C. (2023). When Is the pluriverse? In D. Jones, N. Borekci, V. Clemente, J. Corazzo, N. Lotz, L. M. Nielsen, & L. Noel (Eds.), The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, 29 November - 1 December 2023, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2024.109

Notes

Presented on November 29-December 1, 2023, at The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, LearnXDesign 2023, in London, United Kingdom.

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