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Ulises Navarro Aguiar
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Senior Lecturer at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg.

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When it comes to finance and democracy, an error has *definitely* occurred.
September 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Photograph by Rodrigo Moya: La Muchacha, Tren viejo México-Cuautla, 1966 Rodrigo Moya a bordo de un barco atunero en algún lugar del Pacífico, 1977 Photograph by Rodrigo Moya: Guerrilleros en la niebla, Sierra Falcón, Venezuala, 1966 Photograph by Rodrigo Moya: Che Guevara, La Habana, Cuba, 1964
August 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Ah close enough
August 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Positionings of Embedded Design
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...

"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
August 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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New from ephemera: 'Organizing for apocalypse' ephemerajournal.org/issue/organi...
Issue cover 'Organizing for apocalypse'
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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With much thanks to the editors @delaeconomia.bsky.social @philiproscoe.bsky.social and the anonymous reviewers, this piece co-written w/ Karl Palmås is freshly published.

doi.org/10.1080/1753...
In other words, as hinted before, one way to explain the success of designerly approaches is that they do not hold on to the same pretense of calculability that the earlier approaches (strategic planning, capital budgeting, forecasting) have been scripted to adhere to. Here, though, it is worth noting that this notion of uncertainty, against which both scripts of predictability and speculation are set, has been widely naturalized in discourses about future making. Such a notion of uncertainty has taken broader importance in recent decades, as the currency of any notion of certainty in economic life has waned, if not entirely vanished. Yet, the very notion of an accelerated uncertainty that has propelled the ascendancy of design as a practice that thrives in ambiguity in dealing with ‘wicked problems’ is itself based on a particular temporal ontology in which we are at every moment always breaking from the past – an antigenealogical tendency that is at the heart of the project of modernity, as Sloterdijk (2016) has shown. Here, as Savage (2021, 95) argues, the predictability of long-term processes, such as climate breakdown or rising inequality, is conveniently repressed in favor of a ‘giddy search for novelty’ that fails to recognize the ‘weight of the past.’ The idea of a radically uncertain future becomes a convenient narrative, even a truism, rendering it a fictional expectation in and of itself, which has set an opaque veil over longue durée continuities. Indeed, contemporary future making is imbued with this very modern inclination to continuously sever ties with the past, with design contributing to its obsession with newness. Perhaps a way to deploy more critical terms of engagement to counter this tendency is to move from the idea of making futures to the idea of inheriting futures in need of redirection (Bonnet, Landivar, and Monnin 2021; see also Fry 2009).
April 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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CfP: Peace, Dialogue, Coexistence. Designing for living together / Participatory Design Conference 2026 / Milan

www.pdc2026.polimi.it/wp-content/u...
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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The always has been astronaut meme. The astronaut closest to Earth is labeled "Social Scientists" and is saying "So research methods are performative?" The astronaut behind is labeled "Design Researchers" and is saying "Always have been."
November 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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New paper out: “What is Design Worth?” Narrating the Assetization of Design.

In which I critically examine recent talk and efforts to measure and promote the value of design in organizations, focusing on the case of McKinsey.

Part of a theme issue in Valuation Studies.

doi.org/10.3384/VS.2...
January 24, 2024 at 9:49 AM