By way of an ending, and to bring the handbook full circle, the editors asked some of the founding members of the Participatory Design community to reflect on the role of contemporary Participa-tory Design, based on their long engagement in the field and their knowledge of the handbook. It became clear that, rather than projecting hopeful visions for the future, they felt the need to re-emphasise the foundations of Participatory Design in the service of enabling deeper local impact, based on mundane, everyday, and socio-material and political engagements. In the uneasy contemporary global condition, they struggled to position themselves or to set out a direction for the coming generation of researchers for how to address participation and technology design at global scales, in decolonial ways, with multiple species, and so forth. The sentiments they express at once draw attention to the nurturing of hopeful democratic design experiments (Björgvinsson et al., 2010) and Utopian future-making design practices (Ehn et al., 2014) that have been core to Participatory Design. Reaching far back to the early Utopia, we see this attendance to the mundane everyday acts of caring as a thoughtful reminder that even when facing the big issues and conditions at scale (Bødker and Kyng, 2018), the potentials of participation continue to emerge and unfold in the contemporary moment: