Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene – Three Reviews
Design, Ecology, Politics: Toward the Ecocene has been reviewed three times:
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The Ecological in AI Fictions and Futures
Written with Alistair Alexander for presentation at After AI Symposium (17 May 2024) AI can be seen as the ultimate and most extreme manifestation of extractive technological accelerationism. The rapid development of AI infrastructure to meet the exponential scaling of Continue reading
Design Politics in the Anthropocene
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DRS-Sustainability SIG on Crisis
Our Design Research Society Sustainability Special Interest Group text was just published in Brand Magazine. This is what we wrote. 1/ Despite over 50 years of calls for action on ecological concerns, the design industry has not yet enacted a Continue reading
Sexism and Greenwash
Greenwashing is normal in industries involved with unsustainable development. In my attempts to help highlight greenwashing, I have encountered resistance in the form of sexism. It seems that far too many people cannot recognise sexism when it is happening. In Continue reading
Transition Templates: Pathways to Net Zero+
Transition Templates: Pathways to Net Zero+ is a three year research project funded by the AHRC Innovation Scholars Programme as a collaboration between Dr. Joanna Boehnert of Bath School of Design and Livework’s Sustainable Futures Lab. The project will map pathways for Continue reading
Reflecting on Relating Systems Thinking and Design (#RSD11) “Possibilities and Practices of Systemic Design”
Perhaps I am biased because I did my PhD at this university, but last month s Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD11) “Possibilities and Practices of Systemic Design” at the University of Brighton felt to me like the most ecologically engaged Continue reading
Beyond Anthropocene Ontopolitics
Last week I presented a keynote at the Design History Society Annual 2022 Conference in Ismir Turkey on the theme of Design and Transience. My talk was called Design History and Design Futures: Beyond Anthropocene Ontopolitics. I used the time Continue reading
Power and Politics in Design for Transition @ Research Perspectives In the Era of Transformations
Five papers have just been published with our editorial from the Power and Politics in Design for Transition track at Loughborough University s Research Perspectives In the Era of Transformations conference 19-21 June 2019. Hajira Qazi and Sofia Bosch Gomez on political practice Continue reading
The Role of the Media in the Elections 2019
Approach media speculations about the cause Labour defeat with great skepticism. They will not own the way they have vilified the left Labour movement and destroyed this opportunity to create a fairer society and address climate change over the next Continue reading