Project: Un/making Matters - maintenance, repair and composting
Un/Making Matters explores and develops an emerging design space, that offers
alternatives to the productivist and anthropocentric thinking and making that has been and, still is, strong within design and design research.
Through un/making a designerly repertoire of not only adding the new and more, but of re-enlivening, maintaining, repairing and caring for the aftermath of that which has already been made.
The explorations and developments are collaborative in that the public and others are invited to participate in care-oriented design practices that move across artefacts, practices, aesthetics and imaginaries.
Project information
Project manager
Åsa Ståhl
Other project members
Kristina Lindström, Malmö University
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, Malmö University and other partners
Financier
The Swedish Research Agency. Artistic research.
Timetable
2018–2022
Subject
Design
Website
www.instagram.com/unmakingstudio/
Publications
More about the project
This artistic research project was conducted in an experimental way. The co-investigators Ståhl and Lindström for example started the Un/Making Studio where they worked with many different actors.
The overarching questions on what implications unmaking can have on design artefacts, practices, aesthetics and imaginaries have been approached through three design research projects focusing on un/making soil communities, the plastic straw, and pollination.
Drawing together the results that have been published to different audiences in various contexts throughout this research project, they can be summed up as 3 orientations within un/making. We have articulated them as follows: un/making in the aftermath of design, un/making preferable things, and un/making futures.
The artistic research environment Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures builds on the work done in the Un/Making Studio.