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Impossible futures and the ethics of hopelessness: learnings from Black liberation system entanglements part III [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
Black Liberation work focuses on the flourishing of people of African descent across interconnected life components—community, health, education, employment, nutrition, and housing. Because these components are porous, connected systems, Black Liberation
Victor Udoewa, Victor Udoewa
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Roots of Design Futures in art, architecture, and design [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Arts Architecture & Design, 2023
Design Futures is herewith proposed and discussed as a conceptualization of existing methodological streams in corporate design history, in the analysis of Italian Design Districts, and in other creative industry fields, inspiring a fundamental tension ...
Marco Bevolo
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Five Modes and Nine Variations of Integration between HCD and Futures Design [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Design Thinking, 2022
Human-centered Design and Futures Design both offer different routes to alternative, new designs. Human-centered Design employs a need-based, problem-based, or deficit-based approach.
Victor Udoewa
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Maker communities and the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of Thingiverse’s response to supply shortages

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected various aspects of daily life, particularly the supply and demand of essential goods, resulting in critical shortages. This included personal protective equipment for medical professionals and the general public.
H. Felton   +7 more
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Understanding the effects of root structure on the mechanical behaviour of engineered plant root materials

open access: yesMaterials & Design, 2023
Plant root growth can be altered by introducing obstacles in the path of growth. This principle is used in design to produce planar grid structures composed of interweaving roots.
Israel A. Carrete   +3 more
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Building from the Bottom Up: A Closer Look into the Teaching and Learning of Life’s Principles in Biomimicry Design Thinking Courses

open access: yesBiomimetics, 2022
Biomimicry education is grounded in a set of natural design principles common to every known lifeform on Earth. These Life’s Principles (LPs) (cc Biomimicry 3.8), provide guidelines for emulating sustainable strategies that are field-tested over nearly ...
Laura Lee Stevens   +4 more
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Design Futures Now: Literacies & Making

open access: yesTemes de Disseny, 2020
This issue of Temes de Disseny addresses a mix of topics concerning how design literacies and design making may be understood as ‘future facing’. By doing so, we convey the ways and means design practice and design education may be positioned and ...
Laura Clèries, Andrew Morrison
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Futures Studies for Design Systems and Social Transformation from Time/Space-Based Perspectives

open access: yesSystems, 2023
Analyses of disciplines encompassing futures studies reveal a prevailing tendency to perceive time as a linear sequence of projections. However, this perspective is not applicable to the current context of social transformation in the age of ...
Anna Barbara, Yuemei Ma
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Experimental investigation and analytical prediction of a multi-channel flat heat pipe thermal performance

open access: yesInternational Journal of Thermofluids, 2020
Recently, multi-channel flat heat pipes have been developed to improve the heat recovery from flat surfaces, such as solar panels and batteries. In this paper, the thermal performance of a multi-channel flat heat pipe is experimentally investigated and ...
Valentin Guichet   +2 more
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Social Design Dreaming: Everyday Speculations for Social Change

open access: yesTemes de Disseny, 2023
Racial justice activists tend to turn to science fiction to imagine better, freer worlds. Speculative futures in design are rarely fantasy-based. Design speculation relies more on unfamiliarity and exaggeration than fantasy to challenge assumptions and ...
Hillary Carey
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