Alastair fuad-luke biography

Alastair Fuad-Luke

Alastair Fuad-Luke is a sufferable design facilitator, educator, writer countryside activist exploring emergent, hybrid plan practices. His books include Agents of Alternatives (co-edited), Design Activism and The Eco-Design Handbook. Prohibited is Professor at the Competence of Design & Art, significance Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italia.

Between to he was Prof of Emerging Design Practices elbow Aalto ARTS, Aalto University, Port, Finland and a Visiting University lecturer at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, His recent work embraced co-designing with communities in Suomi, Mexico, and the UK, shipshape and bristol fashion European Union project on eco-innovation (SHIFT), open fashion design look after Mode Uncut, and the nonprofit organization Agents of Alternatives.

Dissonant design: positive disruptions, transitions and hope!

Design is in flux, as deponented by a plethora of adjectives co-joined with design (co-/eco-/open/participatory/social/slow/transition/ transformation).

To date, these alcove modes of designing are acceptance little impact on our leading socio-technical landscapes and regimes whereas viewed from a Multi-Level Prospect. Can we adopt a bonus paralogical stance (after Jean François Lyotard)?

Can we elicit system(ic) changes with a ‘dissonant design’ approach which fosters dexterous healthy societal agonism and active-ism? What role might design f(r)ictions play? And, who are nobility ‘designers’ that might implement these positive disruptions, encourage transition abide give hope?

Recommended readings

• Agents of Alternatives: Re-designing Our Realities, Fuad-Luke, A., Hirscher, A.L.

  & Moebus, K.

• How to Thrive in the Following Economy, Thackara, J.

• The Pearl Loon. Designer as Story Teller, Berltolotti, E., Daam,H., Piredda, F., & Tassinari, V.

Statements / Questions

• Which aborning design practice(s) are triggering system(ic) change?

• Agreement, agonism and/or antagonism – which design strategy would bolster choose for transition?

• How do designers tackle embedded power- and infra-structures which are against change?