Commoning Design & Designing Commons

In this episode of Commoning Design & Designing Commons, Giacomo and Joanna host a conversation with Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal, authors and editors of "Design and Solidarity - Conversation on collective futures" (Columbia University Press, 2023). Marisa ( https://www.marisajahn.com/ ) is an artist, filmmaker, and Sundance Fellow who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of...

In this special episode, we reflect upon an online workshop at the Participatory Design Conference 2022, which explored the intersection between relationality, commoning, and designing . The workshop explored temporally, embodied, and geographically distributed ways of relating to others. The episode invites participant voices recorded during the workshop to talk about their affective experience o...

The theme of this 4th episode of the Commoning Design & Designing Commons podcast is urban commons, and together with Anna Seravalli we discuss co-designing and commoning in the context of urban environments. The city space, and especially public space, is a crucial setting for our social life and sustainable living. During the last decade the framework of the “urban commons” has gained popula...

In this episode we talk with Dimeji Onafuwa, a Nigerian-American designer, researcher, artist, and educator with experience in transition design. We start with Dimeji’s engagement with the Common Cause Collective, an interdisciplinary group of designers applying transition design methodologies to wicked problems in the Pacific Northwest. Dimeji then explains to us what transition design refers to...

Do you want to hear and know more about pedagogy, design, oppression, liberation, monstrous bodies, affect, solidarity and commons design? Join us and listen to this episode! Here, we talk with Frederick van Amstel - design educator and researcher at UTFPR, Brazil - about critical design pedagogy, the roles of the body and solidarity in relationship to design and commoning. Frederick tells us abou...

In this first brief episode, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Sanna-Maria Marttila, and Giacomo Poderi chat about the commons, commoning, and designing. Furthermore, they talk about how their research interests have sparked the idea for the production of this podcast, and they anticipate the type of content and invited guests that the forthcoming episodes will engage with. Stay Tuned! :)