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...
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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...
Bridging Design and Economics: A PSI Framework Analysis of Residency Matching Market Evolution
Summer 2025
This paper addresses a divide: economics and design remain largely disconnected despite shared concerns about shaping products, services, and social systems. We propose that bridging design theory and...
DesignS: World Design Cities Shanghai Manifesto 2024, with an Introduction by Yongqi Lou and John Thackara
Summer 2025
The DesignS: World Design Cities Shanghai Manifesto 2024 redefines the role of design in addressing contemporary polycrises—from climate collapse to AI-driven societal shifts—by advocating for a human-nature...
Worun: Feeling Safer by Design. Reflections on Gender Inequalities in Female Urban Running
Summer 2025
The Worun: Feeling Safer by Design project addresses gender-based disparities in urban running among women in Chile, presenting a design-led solution to improve safety and reduce perceived vulnerability....
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Summer 2025
A Design Management Tool for Product Development in SMEs: The Integrated Design Management (IDM) Tool
Summer 2025
Compelling evidence highlights the importance of good design in driving company success. However, in manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), good design practices and competencies are...
Shaping Entrepreneurial Design Identity in Design Education
Spring 2025
This article employs social identity theory and findings from research on design identity, entrepreneurial identity, and entrepreneurship education to discuss transdisciplinary design education at the...
Wicked Problems: Flexible Characterizations and Visual Representations
Spring 2025
The term “wicked problem” is used to describe a wide range of challenges that defy definition or resolution. These descriptions often reference Rittel and Webber’s 1973 publication, repeatedly listing...
The Cross-pollination Approach: Conditions for Incubating and Cascading Collaborative Civic Design Initiatives
Spring 2025
Integrative civic leadership, which builds on the capabilities of individuals and organizations across sectors and communities, is essential to sustainable and inclusive placemaking. The article explores...
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Spring 2025
