Design Research for Uncertain Futures

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Design Research for Uncertain Futures assembles a diverse group of thinkers and makers, and thinking-through-makers, to situate design research as a form of knowledge generation that is complementary to science, and especially needed now, given changing climates and uncertain futures.

Our model of design research envisions a distinct and powerful role for design researchers to work confidently with uncertainty and to skillfully negotiate contested futures as part of creating more equitable and resilient worlds. Using the tools of design research, knowledge is built through an iterative process of questioning, probing, proposing, building, testing, analyzing and revising. The climate crises that are challenging our collective survival demandsindeed, provokesbold partnerships among the curious and committed to align creativity, analytic rigor and the plurality of values in the broader contexts of uncertainty and experimentation.

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Jamie Vanucchi is an associate professor in landscape architecture at Cornell University and a partner with the Great Lakes Design Labs. Her research is funded by NIFA, the Atkinson's Center for Sustainability, The Landscape Architecture Foundation, and The Graham Foundation. Ozayr Saloojee is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Carleton University, a co-director of the Carleton Urban ResearchLab, cross-appointed faculty at the university's Institute for African Studies and affiliate faculty in Carleton's Center for the Study of Islam. Sarah Dooling is based in Duluth, MN. She has 22 years of leadership in urban ecology and advocacy experience fighting for climate and energy justice, and equitable building decarbonization.