The Impact of Design on the Modernization of Finland
Spring 2026
This article examines the impact of design on the modernization of Finland. The international breakthrough of Finnish design in the 1950s marks a period of aesthetic modernization of the country. In...
Crafting Sustainable Futures: The Role of Prefigurative Design-Led Approaches in Open Innovation Platforms
Spring 2026
Sustainability issues in makerspaces stem from the unstructured nature of rapid prototyping and the lack of frameworks that bridge ethical, ecological, and social concerns. This study investigates how...
Contributors
Spring 2026
Unmaking Ready-Made Futures of the DIY Chair
Spring 2026
This article explores the concept of “ready-made futures” through the lens of the DIY chair to examine the consequences that arise when industrial design aligns with capitalism. Initially conceived...
Designing with Generative AI: Symbiosis, Authorship, and the Evolving Image
Spring 2026
This article explores how generative AI reshapes authorship, presence, and meaning in design. To situate this shift, it compares today’s disruption with photography’s nineteenth-century challenge to...
Evaluating Aesthetic Experiences via Immersive Virtual Environments and EEG: Toward the Integration of Neuroscience Tools in Design Assessment
Spring 2026
The significance of aesthetic experiences in shaping human perception and interaction with spaces has long been acknowledged in art and design theory. While neuroscience research highlights the importance...
Contributors and Acknowledgment to Referees 2025
Winter 2025
“Back to the Future”: Making the Future Organizational Space from Experience to Imagination and Back
Winter 2025
This article explores how the experience of organizational space shapes the enactment of imagined futures of work. While research on future-making emphasizes the value of imagining multiple distant...
Letter to the Editor
Winter 2025
Design Anthropology and Ontological Future Making: Transformative Action for the Emergence of Shared Futures
Winter 2025
This article presents a novel approach—Ontological Future Making—that prioritizes transformative action. Rather than considering distant possibilities and consequences of futures, this approach engages...
Resensing Visions: A Convivial Approach to Future-Making from a Global South Context in Hermosillo, Mexico
Winter 2025
Visioning—the act of imagining futures—plays a crucial role in design, projecting possibilities, desires, and intentional directions into the future. Yet visioning methods face significant limitations,...
Scaffolding Futures Making: Facilitating a More Democratizing Futuring Practice
Winter 2025
In this article, we develop a conceptual framework for democratizing futures making, a practice often dominated by corporate and professional elites. We argue that more inclusive participation requires...
Redirective Tactics for Designing Transitions: A Typology of Sustainable Future-Making Pathways
Winter 2025
Against the backdrop of a global socio-ecological crisis, transition design seeks to envision and realize more desirable future worlds. Framing transition design as a redirective practice, this article...
Making Imagined Futures through Design: The Interplay between Discourse and Materiality
Winter 2025
Addressing futures uncertainty requires collective effort to imagine and make futures that are more desirable to organizations and societies. This article investigates how design artifacts can support...
Contributors
Autumn 2025
Understanding Architecture-in-Use as Multistable: What People Do in the Semi-Public Square of a Housing Project
Autumn 2025
To create spaces that are both resilient and meaningful, architects are often guided by values such as sustainability, inclusion, and overall well-being. Ultimately, these values are realized through...
Data-Driven Innovation for Trustworthy AI
Autumn 2025
Global concerns over the trustworthiness of rapidly proliferating artificial intelligence (AI)-centric artifacts have led to generic institutional recommendations for trustworthy AI, which have yet...
Bridging Data, Lived Experiences, and Policy through Food and Eating: Reconfiguring the Policy Co-creation Landscape for More Just Transitions
Autumn 2025
Despite efforts to engage civil society, local policy implementation often produces unforeseen impacts that authorities struggle to address. This article introduces a methodological approach that uses...
Beyond Divergence: Characterizing Co-exploration Patterns in Collaborative Design Processes
Autumn 2025
Exploration is central to the design process, as it fosters creativity and improves design outcomes. Within design teams, exploration becomes co-exploration—a collaborative and dynamic practice that...
A Wicked Design Problem: How to Hang an Old Tiki (on the Wall)
Autumn 2025
Existing literature on wicked problems deals with them in the context of planning, public policy, or management. Researchers refer to those who solve wicked problems as designers. These problem solvers...
The Design Sensibility Approach: A Case Study in Making, Sensing, and Sense-Making of Speculative Household Energy Designs
Summer 2025
This article introduces the Design Sensibility Approach—a sensorial and embodied process for making sense of possible futures. The approach is applied through a case study on speculative energy design...