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Pivot 2021
Virtual Conference
July 22-23 2021
Conference Proceedings
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Day 1
July 22, 2021
Day 2
July 23, 2021
Opening Ceremony (Keynote: Dori Tunstall)
8:45 - 9:55
Opening Talk
Dori Tunstall
Panel 1 - Narratives and Alternative Futures
10:25 - 11:20
Story-making: Re-imagining possible futures through collaborative world-building approaches
Manuela Taboada and Jane Turner
Critical Tools: Design pedagogy for alternative ways of making futures
Deepa Butoliya
Hirudinea Lampyris: Using Counterfactual Narratives to Imagine Alternate Futures
Lauren Thu
Panel 2 - Social Redesigning
10:25 - 11:20
Communities of Practice: Doing Design Differently
Kate McEntee
Redesigning Money as a Tool for Self-Management in Cultural Production
Frederick M.C. van Amstel, Rodrigo F. Gonzatto and Pedro G. Jatobá
Learning together: re-mapping the Human through Sensory Cartography as Tools of Integration
Britta Boyer
Panel 3 - Land Relations
10:25 - 11:20
Reflecting on Decoloniality and Justice in Latin American Seed System Transformations
Juan Garzon
Between Borderlands and Intersections | Roñe’e yvype (We talk about land)
Pat Vera
Participatory site-specific performance to discuss climate change and water pollution
Marija Griniuk
Panel 4 - Transcultural Imagination
11:35 – 12:30
The Tools and Methods towards Liberatory Joy: Research Through Faraoyść
Anna Lathrop, Julia W. Szagdaj and Nour Abou Jaoude
Navigating a BIPOC identity through Solidarity Design Labor
Dave Pabellon
The Stories of Us: An Exercise In World-Making
Mathura Mahendren
Panel 5 - Storytelling for Change
11:35 – 12:30
Decolonizing medical treatment and nutrition rehabilitation process through narratives and storytelling
Sneha Rout, Lesley Ann Noel and Subarna Goswami
Le storytelling immersif pédagogique en contexte universitaire
Karoline Truchon, Jesse Laplante, Inès Gonzalez, Anne Duret, Sabrina Aubin and Néhémie Racius
Care/Community/Action!: Cards for alternative care paradigms
Morgan Martino
Panel 6 - Identities and Conversation
11:35 – 12:30
Making sense/zines: reflecting on positionality
Lizette Reitsma
White Skin, Brown Soil: a white woman’s search for identity, culture, and belonging on stolen lands
Sarah Johnstone
Staying Diasporic: Centering migrant and diasporic ways of being in design
Yénika Castillo Muñoz
Keynote: Bayo Akomolafe
13:10 - 14:05
Making Sanctuary: A Posthumanist Micro-politics of Getting Lost in Fluid Times
Bayo Akomolafe
Panel 7 - Care as Future Making
14:20 - 15:15
Trauma-informed and trauma-responsive design: anticipating and creating new design methods to support the future
Rachael Dietkus
Regenerative Practice as Transformative Design Framework
Yari Or
Cultivating a Community of Care within Design Education
Wendy Roldan, Andrew Berry, Calvin Liang and Burren Peil
Panel 8 - Political Design
14:20 - 15:15
Solidarity as a principle for antisystemic design processes: two cases of alliance with social struggles in Brazil
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa and Sâmia Batista
When Design is Not the Hero: Supporting Elections Administrators in 2020
Thomas Maiorana
Prefigurative Politics and Design
Alix Gerber
Panel 9 - El Futuro Ancestral (Spanish)
14:20 - 15:15
Rearticulaciones: desmantelar y reensamblar el futuro-pasado desde la perspectiva del Diseño del Sur
Fernando A. Álvarez
Laboratorio Ancestral: Diseño participativo y sabidurías Kichwas en la amazonia de Ecuador
Lucía Garcés Dávila
Sustainable Design Education in Mexico, towards a non-colonial post anthropocentric design
Taina Campos García
Panel 10 - Human/Non-Human Relationships
15:30 - 16:25
Nested Bodies (or A Small and Careful Spoonful)
Julie Van Oyen
Tactility and Care
Aliza Mahmood
Design Listening – connecting to the Pluriverse
Jane Norris
Panel 11 - Feminist Design
15:30 - 16:25
Fem Diàleg – Feminist Participatory Thinking Space
Mercè Rua and Gabriela Masferrer
Mapping the sustainment of a Participatory Design project through a Feminist Social Reproduction approach.
Brenda Victoria Vértiz Márquez
Towards a Political Design: Through Feminist Ways of Movement-Making
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa
Panel 12 - Herramientas Para Conversaciónes (Spanish)
15:30 - 16:25
PICTOGRAMAS NACIONALIDADES INDíGENAS AMAZÓNICAS DEL ECUADOR
Nathaly Pinto and Andrea Botero
Mirada al Futuro a raíz de un Experimento Educativo Sobre Diseño y Género
Mariana Salgado, María de Mater O’Neill, Marcelo Zambrano, Bryan Delgado Tabaco, Elina Perez and Omar Israel Mendoza Rosas
La comensalidad como herramienta para democratizar espacios: vivencia en un laboratorio de diseño autónomo entre artesanas de Yochib y una diseñadora
Zita Carolina González Guzmán and Brenda Georgina González Guzmán
Diasporic conversation: Dany Pen and Casey Mecija
16:40 - 17:35
The Design of Selling Violence and People of Color (POC)
Dany Pen
Sounding Futures: Queer Sonics and Filipinx Intimacies
Casey Macija
Keynote: Jason Lewis
9:00 - 9:55
22nd Century Proto:Typing
Jason Lewis
Panel 13 - The Artificial
10:25 - 11:20
Dancing with the Troubles of AI
Malé Luján Escalante, Luke R. Moffat, Lizzie Harrison, and Viv Kuh
Narrative-based human–artificial collaboration. a reflection on narratives as a framework for enhancing human–machine social relations
Anca Serbanescu, Mariana Ciancia, Francesca Piredda and Maresa Bertolo
Negotiating the Possible Through the Artificial
Gillian Russell and Craig Badke
Panel 14 - Indigenous Knowledges
10:25 - 11:20
Approaching Ubuntu in Education through Bottom-up Decolonisation
Maren Seehawer, Kenneth M. Ngcoza, Zukiswa Nhase and Sipho Nuntsu
Recording Circular Loops of Use and Re-Use of Clothing & Textiles Adopted by Indigenous Communities in India
Pragya Sharma
Sjalel Lekil Kuxlejal: Mayan Weaving and Zapatista in Design Research
Diana Albarrán González
Panel 15 - De-tooling
10:25 - 11:20
Being Co-conspirators
Mudita Pasari and Prachi
I Hate Creativity
Blanka Domagalska and Patricia Kovic
An Abundance of Tools: Attention and Care with theory
Kate McEntee
Panel 16 - More-Than-Human Centred Design
11:35 - 12:30
Post-anthropocentric Design: The problem of optimizing the relationship between humans and nature
Sven Quadflieg
Tools for an Unknown Prospect
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis
Biodiversity Logbooks for an environmental pedagogy of care
Serena Pollastri and Liz Edwards
Panel 17 - Transforming Design Academia
11:35 - 12:30
Scyborg Designer: the Ghost in the Machine
Clara Meliande
Practicing Place-Based Responsibility
Laura Kozak and Jean Chisholm
Visual Exploration of Identity as a Critical Tool to Disrupt Traditional Canons in Design Pedagogy
Gaby Hernández
Panel 18 - Strategies and Covid-19
11:35 - 12:30
Hyperlocal network La Campana-Altamira
Nicole Lotz
A Lesson from Fazal Sheikh’s “Desert Bloom” for living in a Post-COVID World
Bill Leeming
When Design Meets Advocacy: Lessons on Political Distance, Legitimacy, and Tokenization
Colin Angevine, Rafi Santo, David Phelps, Alexandra Lotero and Lucy Herz
Keynotes: Cash Ahenakew & Sharon Stein
13:10 - 14:05
Methodologies for Metabolic Well-being in Uncertain Times
Cash Ahenakew and Sharon Stein
Panel 19 - Interdependence with Nature
14:20 - 15:15
Project Medusa – Communicating Complexity: the systemic depth of pharmaceutical pollution in aquatic environments
Margherita Sonnino Sorisio and Jessie Brown
The Earth is a Common Treasury: 500 Years of Collective Land Tenure as Resistance
Dani Slabaugh
Activating Design for Biodiversity
Zach Camozzi, Charlotte Falk and Louise St. Pierre
Panel 20 - Toolboxes for World-Making
14:20 - 15:15
Wild Worlding Wunderkammer Workshop
Verena Kuni
Liberating Structures for Pluriversal World-Making
Laura Murphy and Máille Faughnan
Feral ways of knowing and doing: tools and resources for transformational creative practice
Cristina Ampatzidou, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi and Andrea Botero Cabrera
Panel 21 - COLABORAÇÃO (Portuguese)
14:20 - 15:15
Práticas de ensino para designers sentipensantes
Karine de Mello Freire and Chiara Del Gaudio
Comunidades Autônomas: a construção de cenários de design estratégico para as populações em vulnerabilidade no Covid-19
Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Luana Fuentefria and Lúcia Kaplan
Panel 22 - Knowledge Intersections
15:30 - 16:25
Introducing Relationality to Design Research
Jananda Lima
Interconnected Futures: Material practices and knowledge-based systems in the academy
Faith Kane, Angela Kilford and Sonya Withers
Calendar Collective
Kalyani Tupkary
Panel 23 - Design and Social Justice
15:30 - 16:25
Design Fuel for the Neoliberal Fire
Becky Nasadowski
Insurgent Design Coalitions: the history of the Design & Oppression network
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Frederick van Amstel, Marco Mazzarotto, Ricardo Artur Pereira, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto and Såmia Batista e Silva
Emergent Distributed Design for Social Justice and Equity
David Cavallo and Andres Briceño-Gutiérrez
Closing Ceremony: a conversation with Arturo Escobar
16:40 - 17:30
Closing Ceremony
Arturo Escobar