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Engaging Design. Tools for design practices urging new forms of citizenships

2025

Abstract

Inspired by examples of work creating the conditions for community-led transition(s), this book offers easy-to-follow strategies. These strategic narratives of citizens’ empowerment constitute practical guidelines as a manual of methods that can be learned or implemented: a catalyst for creative campaigners, design disruptors, social advocates, and citizens of anywhere. While supporting decolonialized perspectives, these methods open and illustrate new realms for design—as a discipline and practice—that stimulate ownership and agency over our (collective) social and natural environment and urge behaviour to foster sustainable, planet-centred means. Engaging Design probes an engaged “metaphorical bridge” between issues (natural and human challenges), public(s), and communities, an engaging design that can be cultivated, designed, interpreted as an applied process in its own right.

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2025

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/40b195a8-ea47-4203-8514-5dfc79506717

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