{"id":2615,"date":"2024-08-08T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2024-08-08T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:27:15","slug":"designing-across-and-within-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Designing across and within ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Connecting 2 events, looking for correspondence seems is an emerging tactic in these posts, and two that proved fascinating in recent weeks was the Mapping Constellations for Regenerative Design conversation at DRS2024 Boston<\/a>, & guest lecture by <\/a>Danielle Wilde<\/a> on Growing Collaborative Futures.

The DRS Conversation with <\/a>Ann Light<\/a>, <\/a>Prof. Andrea Siodmok OBE FRSA<\/a> , <\/a>Sarah Teasley<\/a> <\/a>Laurene Vaughan<\/a>, <\/a>colin gray<\/a>, <\/a>Laura Forlano, Ph.D.<\/a>, Kristina Lindstrom and <\/a>Dan Lockton<\/a>, asked how might we use systemic constellation mapping to represent complex societal and multi-‘dream’ holder issues that describe social, climate and economic in\/justices, to better understand how design can make a difference? The conversation addressed \u2018transformative futures\u2019 by adopting an expanded position to place the individual positionality of the designer into a constellation in which their opinions of the ways the world could or ought to, come into tension with other conditions and actors (human and more-than-human) through the forming of \u2018systemic constellations\u2019. Following the 2022 Conversation in Bilbao we used bodystorming methodologies to enquire into design research positions: https:\/\/dl.designresearchsociety.org\/drs-conference-papers\/drs2022\/conversations\/5\/<\/a>

While the 2022 DRS conversation focused on the reflexive perspective of the designer within complex systems, the 2024 conversation asked participants to consider a diffractive approach to their design research. We used Sarkar\u2019s Ecosystem of Wicked Problem<\/a>s as a starting point, and asked participants to adopt one of the problems within the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In contrast \/ juxtaposition Danielle Wilde\u2019s talk offered a practice through an ecosystem by transforming food systems and integrating traditional knowledge with \u2018modern\u2019 cultures. Perhaps a more reflexive approach, Danielle\u2019s research \u2018cut\u2019 across food ecosystems to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequalities. Emphasising the importance of small-scale, sustainable food production and consumption, and of leveraging traditional knowledge and practices to create a more just and sustainable food system. The talk also highlighted the need for interdisciplinary approaches that combine design, molecular biology, and agroecology to explore the multi-state metabolisms of odorants and to trace the flow of nutrients & pollutants across different scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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