TY - CHAP
T1 - What comes after the ruin?
T2 - Designing for the arrival of preferable futures for the university
AU - Nørgård, Rikke Toft
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - This chapter presents a possible framework imagining and manifesting more preferable future institutions, systems or forms of governance in the form of materialised ‘feasible utopias’. Speculative design is introduced as a way of working with the deliberate materialisation of imagination and possible futures that can help us design for the university after the ruin. The imperative question of how to actually do this through designing for the arrival of more preferable and ‘unruined’ futures for the university is left somewhat unanswered. Designing for the arrival of preferable futures for the university might be hopepunk, starry-eyed and utopian but, existing within the possibility space of all possible futures, it is nonetheless a ‘feasible utopia’. In design, visioning is about imagining preferable futures and design is about how to make those preferable futures happen. Design can be seen as the deliberate materialisation of design visions, whereas collective visioning, then, is the expression of social action- and future-oriented imagination.
AB - This chapter presents a possible framework imagining and manifesting more preferable future institutions, systems or forms of governance in the form of materialised ‘feasible utopias’. Speculative design is introduced as a way of working with the deliberate materialisation of imagination and possible futures that can help us design for the university after the ruin. The imperative question of how to actually do this through designing for the arrival of more preferable and ‘unruined’ futures for the university is left somewhat unanswered. Designing for the arrival of preferable futures for the university might be hopepunk, starry-eyed and utopian but, existing within the possibility space of all possible futures, it is nonetheless a ‘feasible utopia’. In design, visioning is about imagining preferable futures and design is about how to make those preferable futures happen. Design can be seen as the deliberate materialisation of design visions, whereas collective visioning, then, is the expression of social action- and future-oriented imagination.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85140662569
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780367610265
SN - 9780367558109
T3 - World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education
SP - 156
EP - 174
BT - Transformation of the University
A2 - Bengtsen, Søren S. E.
A2 - Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon
ER -