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Future design narratives: an interdisciplinary approach to a decolonial glossary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Victoria Rodriguez Schon  and
Manuela Celi
Victoria Rodriguez Schon*
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Manuela Celi
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
*
victoria.rodriguez@polimi.it

Abstract

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As design evolves, language serves as a bridge between envisioned futures and the ontological elements of design that shape them. This manuscript presents an alternative glossary that gathers words from diverse disciplines and practices intersected by a decolonial lens that challenges hegemonical narratives. The glossary of the world to come results from a three-day workshop that focused on language as a formal, normative, and subversive tool capable of defining future behaviour and destabilizing the present. The terms are some among the many that exist to form this decolonial world.

Keywords

glossarydesign futurespluriversalityontologyco-design
Type
Design Theory and Research Methods
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 4: DESIGN 2024 , May 2024 , pp. 125 - 134
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