The virtual un-conference Pivot 2020 invited participants to consider how to design a ‘world of many centers and voices.’ In this forum, the aim was to pivot the discussion around decolonization from a critical perspective to a creative and generative one. The efforts to dismantle structures of oppression and hegemonic narratives have to be coupled with efforts to design otherwise and generate a different world. To refer to this world, the conference adopted the concept of the Pluriverse, proposed by Arturo Escobar (2018), which refers to a “world where many worlds fit”, in contrast to the “universal” single world generated by coloniality/modernity.
Full Research Papers
2020
Thursday, June 4th

Bridging Design Prototypes & Autonomous Design

Gloria Gomez, University of Sydney

(De)institution Design: decolonizing design discourse in Uruguay

Lucia Trias Cornú, Independent researcher

Defining the Value of Educational Equilibrium for Immigrant and At-Risk Youths Through Art Education in the 2020s and Beyond

Clovis Benjamin Nelson

Envisioning a pluriversal design education

Lesley-Ann Noel, Tulane University

Exploring participatory learning beyond the Institution

Leigh-Anne Hepburn, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney

Linguistic Integration in India: A Persistence of Hegemony

Jayasri Sridhar, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

Opening up our Gated Community

Arvind Lodaya, Independent researcher

Pluriversal design and desire-based design: desire as the impulse for human flourishing

Renata Marques Leitão, OCAD University

Prototyping a Micro-pluriverse: Performed Cosmologies to Decolonize Augmented Reality

Selwa Sweidan, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California
Jessica Escobedo Sibrian, Independent Researcher

Racist Motifs in Design

Omari Souza, Texas State University

Re-defining Domestic Craft-Making: Cultivation of New Craft Practices and Identity Through the Social Media

Pelin Efilti, Istanbul Technical University
Gizem Çelebi, Istanbul Technical University

Speculation of the Purpose of Life in 2050 from Kyoto: Case Study on Transition Design in Japan

Masaki Iwabuchi, Kyoto Design Lab, Parsons School of Design
Daijiro Mizuno, Kyoto Design Lab at the Kyoto Institute of Technology

The intellectual transformation of modern design discourses in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)

Qassim Saad, School of Design and the Built Environment-Curtin University-Perth, Western Australia

The Role of Socio-technical Instruments in Craft and Design Practice in Indonesia

Prananda Luffiansyah Malasan, Research Group of Human and Industrial Design Product, Faculty of Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.
Meirina Triharini, Research Center for Cultural and Environmental Products, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.
Muhammad Ihsan, Research Group of Human and Industrial Design Product, Faculty of Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.

The story of ‘The Spirit of the Hibiscus’; worldmaking activities from Bali

Britta Boyer, Loughborough University, London

Worlds and words: interrogating type and map as systems of power and embodied meaning-making

Jane Turner, Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty, School of Design
Manuela Taboada, Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty, School of Design