COUNTER-FRAMES

Counter-Framing Design is a meta-design research project whose goal is to interrogate dominant frames within the sustainability field in order to develop new structural approaches for co-sustainment and social change. We collaborate with grassroots groups engaged in ‘new economics': innovative community-led approaches to sustaining livelihoods, which prioritize human and planetary well-being. We see sustainability as an intersecting set of issues concerning multiple communities, including marginalized groups. Counter-Framing Design builds on the emerging field of design anthropology, deploying methods across an extended time-horizon, including ethnographic field research, critical discourse analysis, visual mapping and interventions through culturally embedded design artefacts, to uncover the relationship between socio-political framing and strategic action in the sustainability field. By foregrounding counter-frames, the project aims to go beyond institutionalized forms of sustainable..

Primary location: London United Kingdom