DISEÑA | Design Journal

CALL FOR PAPERS #30: Minor Gestures GUEST EDITORS: Danah Abdulla | University of the Arts London Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira | Universität der Künste Berlin Submission deadline: April 26, 2026 Expected publication date: January 2027 revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Dise…

«We argue that design should prioritize attunement, ambiguity, and divergence over mastery or harmony, thus supporting new forms of cohabitation within the constraints of urban life.» doi.org/10.7764/disena…

«We use design interventions in a Stockholm allotment garden as our example, where prototypes created as habitat elements for newts also provoked human curiosity, connections to gardening traditions, and multispecies activity. … 4/5

NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE Wilding Practices Through Design: Playful Encounters for Reframing Control in Multispecies Cohabitation AUTHORS Erik Andersson Martín Ávila Nelly Mäekivi doi.org/10.7764/disena… Texto completo también en español

Los distintos artículos nos invitan a reimaginar prácticas, conceptos e intervenciones que cultiven nuevas formas de relacionalidad, más allá de los límites del diseño convencional.

Este número especial abre un diálogo sobre las formas en que el diseño se relaciona con la condición planetaria, abordando las tensiones ecológicas, técnicas, estéticas y políticas que la configuran.

ÚLTIMO NÚMERO DISPONIBLE La condición planetaria: Diseños, coexistencias y cuidados para reimaginar la habitabilidad (primera parte). Editor invitado: Martín Tironi | @martintironi revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Dise…

The contributions invite us to reimagine practices, concepts, and interventions that cultivate new forms of relationality, moving beyond the boundaries of conventional design.

Guest-edited by Martín Tironi, this special issue opens a dialogue on how design engages with the planetary condition, addressing the ecological, technical, aesthetic, and political tensions that shape it.

LATEST ISSUE FULL AVAILABLE The Planetary Condition: Designs, Coexistences, and Care to Reimagine Habitability (1st Issue) revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Dise…

«… Following Sarah Ahmed, this autoethnographic militant design research reconceptualizes institutional diversity as a contradiction that can be felt and critically worked by a design student body through collective, not just individual, self-representation.

« Like many activities touched by neoliberal multiculturalism, however, this institutionalization of diversity does not fundamentally alter the historical negative differentiation between student and faculty, White and non-White, or male and female bodies. … 3/4

NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE The Contradiction of Institutional Diversity in the Design Student Body AUTHORS Hien L. D. Phan | @pldhdesign Frederick M. C. van Amstel | @fredvanamstel doi.org/10.7764/disena… Texto completo también en español

« It concludes that these pedagogical experiences bring together different logics, including the students’ interest in exploring and experimenting with non-canonical ways of thinking about and practicing architecture in collaboration with situated communities and territories.

«… which have fostered a historiographic questioning movement, both in terms of references and methodological practices. … 4/5

NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE Designing Shared Worlds: Reflections on a Decolonial Teaching Approach in Architectural Projects AUTHOR María Ayara Mendo-Pérez | @AyaraMendo5889 doi.org/10.7764/disena… Texto completo también en español