Collective Design Practices

Jaxon Pope (she/her) and Riccardo Centazzo (he/him), respectively Australian and Italian, are a design and research duo with focused interests in the trajectories of design education, transdisciplinary approaches to collective practices, and the constructs of identity and authorship in the extended field of design and beyond. The two have been working together since 2014, through the formation of an independent design studio, selce studio, in 2015, and an international and transdisciplinary design collective, projektado, in 2020. Their work focuses on the intersection between design theory and practice, experimental forms of knowledge creation and sharing, and on the impact that design activity has on sociocultural, political, economic, and environmental contexts. They are currently active, collaboratively, as designers and researchers at selce studio, as editors and designers within projektado collective and projektado magazine, and at Lund University, Sweden.

Introduction 1. Understanding design 2. Beyond individually-centred practices 3. A small design collective: projektado 4. A large design collective: Hay Futura 5. Collective structures outside of design 6. Identity, authorship, and ownership 7. Context as designer 8. Design through dialogue 9. Rethinking design collectively 10. A directory of tools and practices