Socio-ecologically Just Design after Progress
Norrköping, August 26th – 29th
Designers and design researchers are part of making worlds. In times of severe socio-ecological challenges, this summer school invites PhD-students to explore how to make and know worlds differently. As designers and design researchers we use skills, competencies, capabilities and concepts that are haunted by modernist ways of making worlds that have been guided by anthropocentrism, growth and progress. It is however increasingly recognised that this orientation within design and beyond is highly implicated in multiple unfolding socio-ecological crises, including climate change, pollution, and mass species extinction. As designers and design researchers we are also making, breaking and maintaining ideas and ideals about equality, participation, justice, with consequences on relationships, governance and exclusion.
Deadline for application closes April 1st.
A collaboration between the PhD school Just Transitions and the research environment Design after Progress
On behalf of the organizers Li Jönsson, Stefan Holmlid, Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl
Stefan Holmlid, PhD
Professor in Design