{"title":"Re-defining Domestic Craft-Making: Cultivation of New Craft Practices and Identity Through the Social Media","authors":"Pelin Efilti, Gizem Celebi","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"306 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121318990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing to Shift Power","authors":"A. Alden, Conexion Studio","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.202","url":null,"abstract":"Look at the world around you, virtually every single product in that room, every single service you interact with, every app you open, has historically been designed by a group of homogenous designers. What would the world look like if we had a more diverse group of designers in the driver’s seat? To tackle that challenge I worked with Act in Africa, a business accelerator based in Zimbabwe, to design and lead a program that gave unemployed Zimbabweans the tools and opportunities to become design researchers and to shift who held the power to design and world-shape in their society. The program pushed the participants to go from learner to leader within a month. We worked on a local challenge, ‘How might we improve public transport in Harare?’ as a way for them to rapidly learn design research skills and apply their skills to their context. We then worked with major local corporate clients in a design sprint where the researchers practiced their skills and ran a real consulting project. We are running a version two of the program this year and planning a scale-up to Zambia design research; training; decolonizing design; community design.","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122641678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pivot 2020: Introduction","authors":"Laura T. Murphy","doi":"10.21606/PLURIVERSAL.2020.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/PLURIVERSAL.2020.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130654148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Worlds and words: interrogating type and map as systems of power and embodied meaning-making","authors":"Jane Turner, Manuela B. Taboada","doi":"10.21606/PLURIVERSAL.2020.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/PLURIVERSAL.2020.012","url":null,"abstract":"La interpretacion de nuestra realidad con esquemas ajenos solo contribuye a hacernos cada vez mas desconocidos, cada vez menos libres, cada vez mas solitaries. (Marquez, 1982, para. 7) This paper responds to the call to move away from the centre and to design from many centres. We need to address cultural colonisation and systemisation; to counter misdirection and deceit in order to reveal – not merely the ‘centre’ but the ‘systems of the underside’: structures and systems that arise in the past and which continue to “cloud our eyes” in graphic design communication. Inspired by the works of Walter Mignolo, Arturo Escobar and Boaventura de Souza Santos, which expose the ‘systems of the underside’ and the notion of ‘ecologies of knowledge’ in order to disentangle (and free) or unlink these epistemologies that get lost in western-modes of representation; and by the calls from commentators such as Tony Fry and Donna Haraway who observe that the idea of universality remains blinkered by its own artifice and only serve to create others as its subjects, this paper interrogates cartography and typography as graphic representations of cultural systems and their consequent impacts in the construction of an epistemology for the new, colonised world. Through this critique and unveiling, we follow some story lines in order to reveal the ways that lines create an iron cage. We hope to find, perhaps even create, fractures in the systems and opportunities for pluriverses.","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129506609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speculation of the Purpose of Life in 2050 from Kyoto: Case Study on Transition Design in Japan","authors":"Masaki Iwabuchi, Daijiro Mizuno","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.031","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescents’ depression in Japan is one of the Wicked Problems unique to Japan. Under the circumstances, we aimed to speculate a humane vision where everyone can live with a purpose (*ikigai*) from the historical city of Kyoto, Japan. Using the theories underpinning Transition Design, this paper reports a case study on the core four processes of Transition Design and prototypes which are place-based and decentralized future visions inspired by Japanese traditional Arts. Finally, from the perspective of Pluriversal Design, we present our reflections and unique findings from the practice of the first Transition Design project in Japan, a country other than Europe and the United States.","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131635726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defining the Value of Educational Equilibrium for Immigrant and At-Risk Youths Through Art Education in the 2020s and Beyond","authors":"Clovis Benjamin Nelson","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.025","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to explore the inefficiencies of a one-size-fits-all curricular structure that has no bearing on the anthropological behavior of unique learners. Little is known about cultural relevance in learning through artistic means such as the visual arts, especially for unique project-based learners. This paper is a methodological consideration of a specific visual arts teaching approach for global application in the effort of shaping a “world of many centers.” Attention is given to the natural principles of ecological psychology, identifying the construct of the anthropological respectability of indigenous voices globally, and clarifying related scientific perception-action. The goal is to replace the archaic one-size-fits-all, colonial, “global north” practice with a creative culture-friendly learning paradigm that connects comfortably across disciplines and is adaptive to the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. As per Silverman (2012), empirical evidence identified the differences between the visual and spatial learner--auditory and sequential learner as critical learning curves that are commonplace among adolescents in general and is linked to cultural conditioning variables. The findings of the study address the unique responsiveness of learners by their aptitude. They point to the universal theoretical respect of a cross-cultural paradigm that is the basis for a unique socio-political model for non-European learners. This phenomenological study aims to establish a collective societal opportunistic premise that will help to carve out a respectful multiverse principle for the future without bias. The study seeks to define the global reality in which diversity, ethnicity, racial orientation, religious and sexual convictions, and social interest allow learners to be themselves within the scope of their uniqueness without sociopolitical hindrance.","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115113086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Socio-technical Instruments in Craft and Design Practice in Indonesia","authors":"P. Malasan","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.035","url":null,"abstract":"Craft and design practice has emerged as a tool to improve the economic and social conditions in various countries. Many approaches have been formulated, particularly participatory design (PD) method to bring a democratic design process. However, the narrow focus of PD on micro activities tends to neglect wider contextual factors, such as formal and informal types of institutions. Based on the study of the development of craft products organized by the design center in Indonesia, this paper attempts to identify the diverse interests of the actors, including the objectives of the design center, the target market set by the designers, and the needs of the craftswomen in the craft villages. Subsequently, we illustrated the role of socio-technical instruments as sets of technical apparatus and organizational tools to reconcile the diversity, which can adopt the informal characteristics of small enterprises in regional areas.","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133141086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opening up our Gated Community","authors":"Arvind Lodaya, Independent Researcher","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124283703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pivot 2020: Editorial","authors":"R. Leitão","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123429040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The intellectual transformation of modern design discourses in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)","authors":"Q. Saad","doi":"10.21606/pluriversal.2020.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2020.014","url":null,"abstract":"This study will offer an overview of applied discourses of design in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), including Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Since the 1940s, these countries have been known for their pioneering statues, creative engagements, and influence on shaping, resourcing, and sustaining the emergent project of modernity in the EMR. Studies of these countries’ contemporary design discourses are underdeveloped, with extremely limited studies addressing their context and practices. This study will survey identical phases throughout the contemporary history of these countries, exploring and critically reviewing key themes in their regional sociopolitical rhetoric since the 1950s. The study demonstrates the need to utilise design discourses to empower regional societies currently facing unrest. The study identified four thematic periods reflecting the influence of regional sociopolitical rhetoric: (1) the colonisation era, articulating a sociocultural perspective concerning craftmaking and craftsmanship; (2) postcolonisation and the emergence of modernity, with design emerging as a cultural manifestation that enhances regional socioeconomic development; (3) the rise of the national state, with design as a sociopolitical manifestation utilised to reinforcing identity and local traditions; (4) expansion of autocracy and current discord, with the emergence of social design. These thematic periods are explored through selected examples from across the EMR.","PeriodicalId":332406,"journal":{"name":"Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132067474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}