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PAPERS: Troubling Transitions 2: Embodied and material responses to dilemmas in designing for transitions Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/george-square-50 Session Chair: Femke Coops, TU/e Session Chair: Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Arizona State University | |
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Design for Mending the Rift: Rethinking Sustainable Design from an Eco-Marxist Perspective 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China; 2: Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan Despite the advancement of sustainable design, a critical paradox persists: many practices remain embedded in industrial paradigms, failing to address deep-seated socio-natural contradictions. Grounded in the Eco-Marxist "metabolic rift" framework and informed by recent Agricultural Innovation Design (AID) research, this study proposes a key path for mending these rifts. The research offers a systemic framework for intervening in complex social-ecological systems. The primary conclusions are: (1) metabolic rifts are fundamentally rooted in relational alienation, characterized by the disruption of healthy and reciprocal metabolic relationships between society and nature; (2) structural sustainability requires reshaping metabolic relationships across social, ecological, and intergenerational dimensions; (3) the proposed “restoration paradigm” shifts design logic from product-centricity to relationship restoration through a “mapping-catalyzing-consolidating” path; and (4) designers are redefined as “relationship catalysts” who synchronize community needs with natural ecological cycles to construct resilient systems. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1756
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