CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 4
3. Preface 7
4. Design as Critical Inquiry: Politics, Performativity and Practice 9
5. ‘Flatten the Curve’. The Performative Embodiment of Image, Speech, and Gestures in Scientific Communication from a Design Research Perspective 24
6. Designing in Troubling Times: Experimental Engagements with Socio-Ecological Challenges at the Uroboros Festival 36
7. Imagining Offjects in the Fractiverse 53
8. Making A Cup: An Autoethnographic Study on the Domain of Making and its Distinction from Designing 74
9. Participatory Animation with Young People: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Engagement 90
10. Research through Design and Reflection on Poetic Curiosity 105
11. Design by Act: A New Look at Design Activism and its Actors 110
12. Designing a Computational Interface for the Study of Collections: ‘Grouper’ as a Research Tool 120
13. Make/believe or Make-believe? – Exploring Collective Futures through Crafting Environments in Response to an Immersive Narrative 146
14. Post Social: Towards Design Beyond the Human 153
15. Anthroponix: Upcycling Urine as Collective Design Practice 173
16. Authors and Editors 187