The Speaking Machine, a collaborative digital novel where participants collectively write and illustrate a story online in real time.
_{Site Press

Design by TwoMuch.Studio and Harry Boyd}

_{724—21

Collaborative, Design Research}

Unequal Stories, a collaborative research project between Falmouth University (UK) and the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) that investigates gender diversity, equality, and representation within design disciplines.
_Site

_{709—20

Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, Design Research}

Death X Design X Culture: Radical Re-Imaginings for the End of Life, a collaborative event between Falmouth University (UK), the Death and Culture Network, University of York (UK), the Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan (USA), and the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow (UK), exploring the role of design in critically reimagining death, dying, and disposal.
_{Site
Press}

_034—24
_{Transdisciplinary, Design Research, Academic Leadership}

Design As... responding to the urgent need for furthering critical work in the field of design, this edited series is an accessible introduction to key areas of critical and cultural discourse for students, designers, educators, and scholars. Each volume presents a particular theme, practice, or concern of significance to design culture, outlining core theories and theorists, and evaluating their relevance to current and emerging academic and socio-political perspectives. Published by Bloomsbury.
_Site

_764—25 Interdisciplinary, Deaign Research, Academic Leadership, Publishing

Open call

Design thinking, neoliberalism, and the trivialisation of social change in higher education, a critical examination of the increasing popularity of Design Thinking and related methodologies reveals inherent ideological and practical problems, including its proximity to neoliberalism and the potential exploitation of vulnerable communities, ultimately arguing for a more critical and situated approach to prevent it from doing more harm than good.
_Site

_013—21Design Research, Publishing

Graphic Design Urgencies, a doctoral project brief, seeks radical, transformative research proposals to address design's complicity in environmental precarity and extractive capitalism, fostering new graphic design practices and discourses for disciplinary degrowth, postcapitalist subjectivities, environmental politics, and human/other-than-human relationships.
_Site

_539—25
_{PhD Supervision, Design Research

Open call}

Sober & Lonely, is a multidisciplinary artist duo (Lauren von Gogh and Robyn Cook, formed 2011) from Johannesburg, South Africa, which functions as a mobile platform for research, experimentation, and artist residencies, often exploring unconventional and collaborative approaches to art including butter churning aerobics and experiemtns with telepathic rabbits.

_317—11

_{Collaborative, Creative Practice, Experimental}

A Barometer of Unease, is a live, location-sensitive index inspired by Lyall Watson’s Biological Beaufort Scale, initially published in Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (1977; reissued 2019).This iteration maps real-time wind conditions to a personal scale of unease, ranging from mild restlessness to hyper-vigilance, disorientation, and ultimate collapse.
_Site

_006—07

_{Design Practice, Experimental}

Nose Fear, is a design-led research project and dumb parody-band that uses music to explore academic theory. It combines art-pop and electroclash with scholarly elements like citations to create its own genre, Post-Structuralist Electroclash Citation Core, which aims to provoke political reflection through its use of friction and absurdity.
_Site

_008—25

_{Design Practice, Experimental}

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