Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse
ISBN: 9781003285175
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems.

Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways are there for knowledge transfer, supporting plural agendas, finding novel ways for unsettling conversations, unlearning and learning and challenging power structures with marginalised groups and contexts through art and design? The main themes of the book are art and design methods, epistemologies and practices that provide critical, interdisciplinary, pluriversal and decolonial considerations. The book challenges the domination of the white logic of art and design and shifts away from the Anglo-European one-world system towards the pluriverse.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, arts-based research, and design studies.


Satu Miettinen is a dean and professor in service design at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, Finland.

Enni Mikkonen is a postdoctoral researcher in social work at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos is a professor of design at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Melanie Sarantou is an adjunct professor in social design at the University of Lapland, Finland.

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