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  1. Designing alter/native realities

    Designing alter/native realities

    Abstract: Reality is so hard to change these days and, at the same time, so easy to deny, that design research is increasingly about virtual, augmented, mixed, and speculated realities. Prospective design is a research program born at UTFPR, Brazil, Global South, that speculates on reality as part of a larger move of transforming reality. […] - May 24, 2026
  2. Designing mutualistic interfaces

    Designing mutualistic interfaces

    Abstract: Digital interfaces have replaced so many face-to-face interactions that we almost forget what we are missing. As users, we take action, send orders, and sometimes hurt other people without even knowing whose faces are on the other side of the “inter-face”. This habit is extending to analog interfaces as offline actions increasingly follow online […] - May 17, 2026
  3. The Paulo Freire Method applied to design education

    The Paulo Freire Method applied to design education

    A talk delivered by Frederick van Amstel and Hien Phan at the Futures of Design Education series promoted by the DRS Education SIG. Abstract: Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator who defied dictatorships, developed a literacy method that integrated the acquisition of graphic language with political education. With some adjustments, generative themes, images, words, and tools, […] - May 12, 2026