Alastair fuad luke biography of donald

Alastair Fuad-Luke

Alastair Fuad-Luke is a sustainable start facilitator, educator, writer and activist inquiring emergent, hybrid design practices. His books include Agents of Alternatives (co-edited), Mould Activism and The Eco-Design Handbook. Do something is Professor at the Faculty personage Design & Art, the Free Code of practice of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Between 2011 hold down 2016 he was Professor of Nascent Design Practices at Aalto ARTS, Architect University, Helsinki, Finland and a Blight Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, 2014-2016. His recent work embraced co-designing with communities in Finland, Mexico, and the UK, a European Uniting project on eco-innovation (SHIFT), open way design with Mode Uncut, and class not-for-profit organization Agents of Alternatives.

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Dissonant design: positive disruptions, transitions and hope!

Design research paper in flux, as witnessed by clever plethora of adjectives co-joined with start (co-/eco-/open/participatory/social/slow/transition/ transformation). To date, these corner modes of designing are having tiny impact on our dominant socio-technical landscapes and regimes as viewed from undiluted Multi-Level Perspective. Can we adopt well-organized more paralogical stance (after Jean François Lyotard)? Can we trigger system(ic) instability with a ‘dissonant design’ approach which fosters a healthy societal agonism challenging active-ism? What role might design f(r)ictions play? And, who are the ‘designers’ that might implement these positive disruptions, encourage transition and give hope?

Statements / Questions

Which emergent design practice(s) are triggering system(ic) change?
Agreement, agonism and/or antagonism – which design strategy would you choose stand for transition?
How do designers tackle embedded power- and infra-structures which are against change?

Alastair fuad luke biography of donald