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Once designers step away from industrial production and the marketplace we enter the realm of the unreal, the fictional, or what we prefer to think of as conceptual design—design about ideas. It has a short but rich history and it is a place where many interconnected and not very well understood forms of design happen—speculative design,1 critical design,2 design fiction,3 design futures,4 antidesign, radical design, interrogative design,5 design for debate, adversarial desig

Visit > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its users, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher in his work Small Is Beautiful. Both Schumacher and many modern-

Blockchain humanitarianism and crypto-colonialism Olivier Jutel Visit > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921003056 The bigger picture A critical political economy approach to new technologies is key to discerning suitable use cases from highly ideological projects. This perspective considers the emergence of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the aid sector. The ability of blockchain enthusiasts to experiment with governance and payment platforms in t

Labour, Love and (De)coloniality in the employment relationship Flavia Souza Maximo Pereira Visit > https://geopolitique.eu/en/articles/labour-love-and-decoloniality-in-the-employment-relationship/ Quando eu morder a palavra, por favor, não me apressem, quero mascar, rasgar entre os dentes, a pele, os ossos, o tutano do verbo, para assim versejar o âmago das coisas. Conceição Evaristo Labour and Love. For me this is an intriguing combination. Is this feeling allowed when we

Decolonizing Reproductive Labor: Caribbean Women, Migration, and Domestic Work in the Global Economy by Charmaine Crawford Visit > https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/globalsouth.12.1.03 Abstract In this paper, I focus on the experiences of working-class African-Caribbean women who migrated to Canada in the late twentieth century in search of better economic opportunities for themselves and their families. Female migrants initially entered Canada on a temporary basis to work

Decolonizing agriculture in the United States: Centering the knowledges of women and people of color to support relational farming practices Emma Layman, Nicole Civita Visit > https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8793816/ Abstract While the agricultural knowledges and practices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and women have shaped agriculture in the US, these knowledges have been colonized, exploited, and appropriated, cleaving space for the presently d