From Needs to Desire
Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12922279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renata M Leitão (0000-0001-5184-7058, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 255-276 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Design and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-7075 • E-ISSN: 1754-7083 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17547075.2022.2103949 |
| OpenAlex | W4291899713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 35 |
This paper makes the case that a Pluriversal Social Design should be desire-based. It suggests that the creation of meaningful social change requires moving the focus of design processes from needs to agentic desires. The author understands agentic desire as the creative impulse towards human flourishing. In social design, the current emphasis on needs makes designers continually reproduce the Eurocentric model of life, hindering the creation of genuine alternatives. Moreover, centering collaborative relationships (designing with) on people’s basic needs is often disempowering. Desire-based design is a transformative practice that aims to break with normalcy and orthodoxy (i.e. the familiar way of doing things) to create and recognize alternatives. In the typical process, the designer starts with a need or problem and looks for a desirable solution. This paper suggests the opposite, engaging with desire as a starting point, in an open-ended exploration, and emphasizing people’s agency
Aesthetics · Art · Sociology · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology
Design, When Everybody Designs
Designs for the Pluriverse
The Design Way
Development as Capability Expansion
Poverty and Famines
Valuing Freedoms
Design and Social Innovation at the Margins
Social Design and Neocolonialism
Problematizing Replicable Design to Practice Respectful, Reciprocal, and Relational Co-designing with Indigenous People
Decolonial Design in Practice
On Country Learning
Does a Basic Needs Approach Need Capabilities
Breaking up with Deleuze
A theory of human motivation
Practical Utopias
Suspending Damage
Eurocentrism and Modernity (Introduction to the Frankfurt Lectures)
Agency and Empowerment
Encountering Development
Design Anthropology
Technology, material culture and the well-being of Aboriginal peoples of Canada
Delinking
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |