Eco-social design: who pays for it?

Abstract

We understand eco-social design as a diverse set of design practices and projects that want to contribute to a much needed transformation of the relations among humans and between humans and nature, in order to move towards more sustainable, non-alienated, resilient, just and equitable futures -both locally and trans-locally. However, in today's economic and political landscape designers often struggle to keep their eco-social design practices viable.

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“…The general focus of Salter et al (2017: 140) is on how STS could broaden their "ways of investigating and intervening into technoscientific worlds" by engaging with art and design, learning different methods, acquiring different forms of knowledge and by reflecting on it. Although we are interested in all four points listed by Salter, Burri and Dumit (2017) and we are actively engaged in at least three of them (see, e.g., Krois et al, 2017;Moretti and Mattozzi, 2020;Parolin and Pellegrinelli, 2020a), this article is concerned with 'aesthetic practices' as a "subject of enquiry" (Storni, 2015), as a "topic […][:] one object amongst others that can be subjected to [STS] analysis" (Michael, 2018a: 116), like many other STS scholars have done (see, e.g., Dubuisson and Hennion, 1996;Storni, 2012;Strandvad, 2012;Yaneva, 2003Yaneva, , 2009. This has also been the focus of Ruth Ben-…”