If, as designers, want to create desirable futures, one way is to prefigure desired ways of relating (to ourselves, the world and others who dwell in it), giving people something to aspire to in the changes to come. Affective prefiguration can make visible eco-social transformation as it happens. This prefiguration is an experience of relations […]
Evaluating Creative Practice for Transformation
Introducing tools that evaluate transformative creative practices on the creator’s own terms, yet with rigour. Connect to materials prepared for artists, funders, researchers and policy-makers with the desire to make radical shifts in meaning and cultures towards eco-social futures: CreaTures Framework – how to evaluate creative experiential work for transformative ends, while challenging evaluation practices: […]
Participative intimacy
What’s wrong with changing the world one neighbourhood at a time; hands in the soil but looking at the stars?
Transformative Economies
Eco-social justice requires a redistribution of resources and capabilities. Develop relational assets and it is possible to create surplus care as well as fairer societies.