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Designing relations all the way down: Hyperlocal eco-social arcs of care and roleplay
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). University of Sussex, United Kingdom.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9145-6609
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2025 (English)In: Proceedings of Nordes 2025: Relational Design / [ed] Andrew Morrison, Alma Culén, Laurence Habib, Design Research Society , 2025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

We use the relational as a lens to examine how a workshop, created to inspire sensitivity to the interdependent nature of all life, is itself a nest of relations—shaped by intentions, co-created content, and outcomes beyond organisers’ influence. With a practical mission to decentre humans and acknowledge interdependencies – in a turn to more-than-human ethics and a commitment to the hyperlocal eco-social – the workshop employs live action roleplay (LARP) to engage a small English town in facing future uncertainties. We explore the place of care, solidarity and collective agency in confronting readiness to deal with coming challenges. Linking theories of relationality and practices of relating, we conclude that the workshop can be an example of how, if we want meaningful change, locally-embedded agentic care relations can be made fractal through all our engagements and encounters.

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Design Research Society , 2025.
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Nordic design research conference, E-ISSN 1604-9705
Keywords [en]
more-than-human, care, readiness, ecological, workshop, impact
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-80571DOI: 10.21606/nordes.2025.19ISBN: 978-1-912294-58-9 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-80571DiVA, id: diva2:2013348
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11th biennial Nordes conference, 6th – 8th August 2025, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Available from: 2025-11-12 Created: 2025-11-12 Last updated: 2025-11-12Bibliographically approved

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