Introduction

This special issue focuses on how designing consciously with the past can play a pivotal role in repoliticizing notions of time in design research. The articles gathered here further discussions on the critical potential of addressing the past in Design Issues. They challenge ideas of being out of time—not only in an ecological sense and because of broken worldly relations but also on an institutional level when tight timelines tied to funding mechanisms create obstacles in reaching design project goals. The authors encourage persistence, endurance, and determination in design practices that, in one way or another, acknowledge human and more-than-human past engagements

Critical design · Design elements and principles · Design methods · Timeline · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Design Education and Practice · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction