DISEÑA | Design Journal

Peer-reviewed, bilingual publication | Scopus indexed Q2 |
Escuela de Diseño | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
@DISENO_UC

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CALL FOR PAPERS #30: Minor Gestures

GUEST EDITORS:

Danah Abdulla | University of the Arts London

Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira | Universität der Künste Berlin

Submission deadline:
April 26, 2026

Expected publication date:
January 2027

https://t.co/NQUp8fgTDJ

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« … but they make their own present through the making of artifacts. These relational design methods supporting planetary co-habitability require care-full community-led engagement with the land.»

https://t.co/6y8RluHMMo

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NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE

Caring for the Land and Territorio as a Method for Participatory Design

AUTHORS
Sergio Bravo-Josephson
Cindy Kohtala | @ckohtala
Brendon Clark | @BCinSE
Luis Berríos-Negrón

https://t.co/pG45vDRkHH
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« We examine the artifacts and their makings through a lens of territorio (territory) to demonstrate a different land-based reality that resists colonial oppression. In these realities, communities are not mere observers of the changes around them, …
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« …and offering reflections on the ethics of wonder based on a critique of the activities.»

https://t.co/WUDnNlH6xl

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NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE

The Ethics of an Aesthetics of Wonder for Planetary Care

AUTHORS
Karey Helms | @kareyhelms
Meike Schalk
Airi Lampinen | @airi_

https://t.co/8QO7yRf20l

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« We offer three contributions: defining and positioning wonder as a possible design aesthetics for planetary care, presenting three seasonal activities that situate wonder as an aesthetics in practice, …
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« …through speculative explorations that seek to take overheated urban milieus into our own drawing hands.»

https://t.co/tuMGw8y8nx

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NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE

Solar Drawings and Moving Shades: An Affective Aesthetics for the Urban Climatic Mutation

AUTHORS
Tomás Criado | @tscriado
Carla Boserman | @cboserman
https://t.co/MreUla1jEj

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« As we see it, these unstable records can become relevant forms of experiential research, activating embodied visual sensitivities to correspond to worlds undergoing climatic mutation…
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« Attending to sand’s granular materiality opens new possibilities for situated, accountable, and reparative practices in an increasingly unstable world.».

https://t.co/yS22OCQ5f4

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NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE

Granular Configurations: Attending to the Material Politics of Planetary Design

AUTHOR

Michaela Büsse | @cosmogrammatics
https://t.co/f34uAQ90K3

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« This approach unsettles dominant narratives of design as coherent or systemically integrated, revealing instead its contingent, contested, and more-than-human formations. …
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