Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse

Satu Miettinen is a dean and professor in service design at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, Finland. Enni Mikkonen is a postdoctoral researcher in social work at the University of Lapland, Finland. Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos is a professor of design at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Melanie Sarantou is an adjunct professor in social design at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Preface- Andrea W. Mignolo and Walter D. Mignolo

Foreword: The European Commission policy for promoting arts to tackle societal challenges and increase cohesion and inclusion- Christina Sarvani and Jarkko Siren



Introduction: Artistic cartographies and design explorations towards the pluriverse - Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos and Melanie Sarantou
Section I: Pluriversal A/r/tographies




Record of a multispecies creative exploration in the austral forests - Mariluz Soto Hormazábal and Mauricio Tolosa

Dialogues for plurality—art-based exchange for strengthening youth’s role as agents of change - Katri Konttinen, Enni Mikkonen & Mikko Ylisuvanto


Multiperspective take on pluriversal agenda in artistic research - Marija Griniuk, Daria Akimenko, Satu Miettinen, Heidi Pietarinen and Melanie Sarantou
A critical retrospective on whiteness in Possible Worlds video artwork - Mari Mäkiranta and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä


New genre Arctic art in the city of Rovaniemi: Promotion of de-Arctification and pluralism - Maria Huhmarniemi and Mirja Hiltunen

Expanding design narratives through handmade embroidery production: A dialogue with a community of women in Passira, Pernambuco, Brazil - Ana Julia Melo Almeida and Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos

Afrikana—burying colonial bones to harvest seeds and bouquets of plurality - Michelle Olga van Wyk
Section II: Design explorations towards the pluriverse




Excluding by design - Peter West

Knowledge plurality for greater university-community permeability: Experiences in art and design from fieldwork - Caoimhe Isha Beaulé, Élisabeth Kaine, Étienne Levac, Anne Marchand and Jean-François Vachon

Other worlds are possible: Advanced computational and design thinking in South Auckland - Ricardo Sosa

Pluriverse perspectives in designing for a cultural heritage context in the digital age - Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen, Mari Suoheimo and Maija Mäkikalli

Centring relationships more than humans and things: Translating design through the culture of the Far East - Namkyu Chun

Professionalised designing in between plural makings - Zhipeng Duan

Enacting plurality in designing social innovation: Developing a culturally grounded twenty-first-century leadership programme for a Cambodian context - Joyce Yee, Sovan Srun and Laura Smitheman
Section III The pluriverse of activism, diversity and accessibility


A history of design education in Brazil: A decolonial perspective - Júlio César Tamer Okabayashi and Maria Cecília Loschiavo Dos Santos

Unveiling the layered structures of Youth Work - Ana Nuutinen and Enni Mikkonen

Making IMPACT: Visibility status in participatory projects - Teresa Torres De Eça and Ângela Saldanha

Flag: A shared horizon - Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi and Melanie Sarantou

Ghost bike agency and urban culture through art activism - Eduardo Rumenig, Julio Talhari, Maria Cecilia L. Dos Santos and Luiz E.P.B.T. Dantas

Mediating social interaction through a chatbot to leverage the diversity of a community: Tensions, paradoxes, and opportunities - Amalia De Götzen, Peter Kun, Luca Simeone, and Nicola Morelli