How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with
nonhumans, with whom we are entangled. Over the past forty years, designers have …

Addressing contemporary public policy challenges requires new thinking and new practice.
Therefore, there is a renewed sense of urgency to critically assess the potential of the …

This conceptual paper discusses the use of Co-Design approaches in the public realm by
examining the emergence of a design practice, prototyping, in public policy-making. We …

It is an interesting time to produce a special issue on participatory design. The seed for this
started as a rejoinder to a previous Design Studies special issue on Participatory Design …

How do people become conversant with futures-in-the-making? This paper explores
speculative design from the position that futures have agency in the present and therefore …

Inventing the Social showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that
combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in …

This essay addresses the question of how participatory design (PD) researchers and
practitioners can pursue commitments to social justice and democracy while retaining …

Social design has gained momentum in design research during the last ten years, a
development which can be seen as having several roots. Some of these roots go back a few …

Highlights•50-year history of architect's changing spatial practices in participatory
design.•Transition from discursive practices to concrete interventions in everyday …

Many of the things we now live with do not take a purely physical form. Objects such as
smart phones, laptops and wearable fitness trackers are different from our things of the past …