(2010). Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World by Alastair Fuad-Luke. The Design Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 236-239.

Discussions on design activism generously embrace the activist ethos of designers, but are inconsistent in articulating how design activism makes a difference in relation to the various socially engaged design approaches generated. Committed to critically and transformationally engage with progressive socio-economic and political problems, the activist designer creates forms and situations within social processes. By mapping the fields of knowledge and concepts on which design activism draws, the paper attempts to bring an understanding of what informs Design Activism actions beyond the neoliberal paradigm. Drawing on the emerging discussions on design activism, the paper brings together articulations of design activism from scholars and design collectives to foreground the foundation for a more coherent understanding of design activism and a constructive dialogue within its community.

Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World by Alastair Fuad-Luke

Exploring articulations of design activism

This paper aims to present the interdisciplinary interactions between design students (Master in Product and Industrial Design - MDIP) and engineering students (Integrated Master in Environmental Engineering - MIEA) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal, through the development of an academic project based on the environmental sustainability pillar The experience reported here includes a description of the project methodology, shared information, tools used in the analysis, and results obtained in quantifying and assessing the environmental impacts of the product The outcome was an extra motivation to learn and incorporate environmental concerns in design With this experience, students could understand the importance of the interdisciplinary methodology to develop rigorous projects to more environmental sound products

Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World by Alastair Fuad-Luke

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Exploring articulations of design activism

Sustainability as a theme of interdisciplinarity between design and engineering courses

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Exploring articulations of design activism

Sustainability as a theme of interdisciplinarity between design and engineering courses