Connecting to Place

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Over the past two years, I have attempted to document the changes that have occurred in our shared spaces. As a global community we have experienced a pandemic which has called attention to cracks and slippages in multiple systems in our world and the resulting affects on the human and non-human. Now, the world watches the emergence of a new multipolar world. With all change there are negative and positive outcomes. One of the positive outcomes is the opportunity to diffract on the old and create new. Arturo Escobar (2018) discusses design theorists Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby’s (2013) argument for speculative design which are “design practices that enable collective discussion about how things could be”. According to Escobar, Dunne and Raby state that “‘design speculations can act as a catalyst for collectively redefining your relationship to reality’ by encouraging - for instance, through whatif- scenarios---the imagination of alternative ways of being”. Escobar describes their idea of critical design and “how critical design is critical thought translated into materiality” (Dunne and Raby 2013, as cited by Escobar, 2018). I am pulled toward exploring our connection to place and towards thinking collectively, affectively, and speculatively about what place can be and how we can intentionally build to place that connects to us in meaningful ways to the everyday. References Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds. New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century.

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Connecting to Place

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Over the past two years, I have attempted to document the changes that have occurred in our shared spaces. As a global community we have experienced a pandemic which has called attention to cracks and slippages in multiple systems in our world and the resulting affects on the human and non-human. Now, the world watches the emergence of a new multipolar world. With all change there are negative and positive outcomes. One of the positive outcomes is the opportunity to diffract on the old and create new. Arturo Escobar (2018) discusses design theorists Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby’s (2013) argument for speculative design which are “design practices that enable collective discussion about how things could be”. According to Escobar, Dunne and Raby state that “‘design speculations can act as a catalyst for collectively redefining your relationship to reality’ by encouraging - for instance, through whatif- scenarios---the imagination of alternative ways of being”. Escobar describes their idea of critical design and “how critical design is critical thought translated into materiality” (Dunne and Raby 2013, as cited by Escobar, 2018). I am pulled toward exploring our connection to place and towards thinking collectively, affectively, and speculatively about what place can be and how we can intentionally build to place that connects to us in meaningful ways to the everyday. References Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds. New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century.