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This edited volume explores the potential of human cleverness in design to address - or even reverse - the damage humanity has inflicted on our planet. Contributors establish the more optimistic concept of the Callidocene in response to the negatively portrayed Anthropocene in order to demonstrate these possibilities.
List of contents
Introduction
Being Affected by the Anthropocene
Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer
Part One: Complexity
Chapter One
Framing Anthropocene with Experimental Prototyping
Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer
Chapter Two
The Three Approaches to Complexity in Design: Design as Configuration, Execution, and Attribution
Cliff Shin and Juan Salamanca
Chapter Three
(Re)Designing Intersectional Feminist Futures: "Vital Structuring" as Critical Praxis
Brianna I. Wiens
Chapter Four
Re-stitching Texts: A Geography of Fragmentation in Five Movements
Teresa M. Dobson
Part Two: Techne
Chapter Five
Graphic Design from the Perspective of Contemporary Technological Relationships
Juan De La Rosa
Chapter Six
Design and Machine Learning: Tipping the balance toward the Callidocene
Gerry Derksen
Chapter Seven
"We Still Don't Understand We're at War": Media Toxicity and Social Media Disinformation Ecologies
Shana MacDonald and Brianna I. Wiens
Part Three: Action
Chapter Eight
A Project May Be More Than You Think It Is
Ricardo Triska and Stan Ruecker
Chapter Nine
Are Surveys Necessary? Designing Virtual Environments for Participatory Research
Colter Wehmeier
Chapter Ten
Ride the Bullet: An Introduction to Design Reading
Milena Radzikowska and Stan Ruecker
Chapter Eleven
Designing Futures and Framing Worlds: Posthuman Worldbuilding in Speculative Comics Created by Youths
Andrea Hoff and Teresa M. Dobson
Conclusion
Why the Callidocene?
Stan Ruecker
About the author
Milena Radzikowska is an established researcher in humanities-based data visualization, feminist human-computer interaction (HCI), and interface design for decision support. Milena is professor in information design at Mount Royal University Stan Ruecker is an international design research consultant.Guilherme Meyer is a designer, educator and researcher. Teresa M. Dobson is director of the Master of Educational Technology Program and professor of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia. Brianna I. Wiens is assistant professor in English language and literature at the University of Waterloo.Guilherme Meyer is a designer, educator and researcher. Shana MacDonald is associate professor in communication arts at the University of Waterloo.Stan Ruecker is an international design research consultant.Teresa M. Dobson is director of the Master of Educational Technology Program and professor of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia.
