How can we prepare to adequately respond through design to planetary uncertainties and challenges in the aftermath of previous makings? This session focuses emerging design practices: how might these be entangled or disentangled with different pasts and future educations?
This fika-seminar inquires into the slipperyness of an emerging critical posthumanist design landscape (Laurien et al 2022). We bring scaffolding materials from fika-seminars conducted during 2023 and 2024 in the artistic research environment “Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures” (DaP). At the artistic research symposium we explore a public version of the fika-seminar methodology, inviting the audience to engage with DaP and the Slovenian design collective Krater.
Krater works through public engagements with and in a feral urban space, exploring designers’ noticing and making through urgent pedagogies from posthumanist perspectives. This spans working with invasive species to typologies for urban planning.