Collective Embodiment — Entidade

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Who designs the designer? An anticolonial response to the world that design us back

Souza, Eduardo A. B. M., Saito, Carmem, Van Amstel, Frederick M. C., Gonzatto, Rodrigo Freese. (forthcoming). Who designs the designer? An anticolonial response to the world that design us back. Proce

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Object Theater

Object Theater is an extension of Theatre of the Oppressed that scrutinizes technology-mediated oppression and its symbolic and sensitive dimensions. Building upon the dramatic games developed by Augu

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Embodied algorithms

Algorithms are mathematical and logic structures that sort, transform, and create information in computers and, increasingly, in society. Algorithms change human-to-human interactions in ways that are

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Critical consciousness in Prospective Design

Prospective Design is a field of research opened by researchers from the Graduate Program in Prospective Design (PPGDP) at UTFPR, of which the proponent is one of the founders. Since 2019, the propone

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The Relational Becoming of a Participatory Design Commoner

Marttila, S., van Amstel, F., Saad-Sulonen, J., Botero, A., Poderi, G., Teli, M.,and Commoner, P.(2025) The Relational Becoming of a Participatory Design Commoner, in Brandt, E., Markussen, T., Berglu

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Systemic userism in service design

Abstract: Userism in service design manifests as a group of humans reduced to be users (and only users) of a given service. Userism prevents these people from cocreating, codesigning, and coproducing

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Image Theater – Fred van Amstel

Image theater is the most popular and accessible Theater of the Oppressed technique. It consists of telling an oppression story through a static body image. The spect-actors stand in postures that, al

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Making work visible in the theater of service design

Capitalist service design is grounded on a theater metaphor that guides service designers to make work invisible, away from customer scrutiny and public accountability. In this way, service design con