This subproject stages a new, earth-logical arena for design where we will generate systemic and holistic understandings of how design can work as a strategic force for sustainability and generate ecological, social, cultural, and economic values.
This is achieved through collaborative research with cultural entrepreneurs in the fields of storytelling, performing arts, and craftship. The project will perform new speculative professional roles, investigate both local and global conditions for designers working as agents of change, and in collaboration with governance, education, and industry develop proposals for supportive infrastructures.
The subproject uses metadesign frameworks to investigate the interplay of design activities at local, regional, and global levels, as well as at product, system, and paradigm levels. As part of the new earth-logical arena, we explore the potential of understanding design as activities of learning, governance and languaging. The project builds on on findings from the Earth Logic and BOOST Metadesign projects.
Collaborative research
The subproject Earth Logic Design aims to generate concrete guidelines for and provide examples of how design for learning, governance and languaging can be used in a systematic and strategic work in for change. It will also focus on how the impact of this design activity, which occupies a new role compared to design in the conventional industrial context, can be measured and communicated.
Through co-creative research, the subproject will develop new and innovative methods, processes, working models, professional roles, and routines for design as a cultural agent of change. Additionally, the results of the subproject will be translated for use in other development work and research where design is part of transdisciplinary collaboration.