Planetary Design - Reclaiming Futures
Episodes
EP. 09 | Countering catastrophic thinking
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It often feels as though there are more frequent climate emergencies and environmental disasters than we can properly acknowledge, with consequences s...
EP. 08 | Reparative Design – Inherited Pasts, Restituted Futures, with Dele Adeyemo
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If urbanisation is ineluctably spreading across the planet, exactly whose model informs the pattern? Whose plans inform the development of underdevelo...
EP. 07 | Indigenous Infrastructures of Worldmaking, with Lesego Bantsheng and Awande Buthelezi
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Almost universally, conversations around imminent environmental, political and social urgencies tend to focus on urban agglomerations rather than on r...
EP. 06 | Ecosocialist Planning: Between Utopia and Realism, with David Frank
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Depending on the market economy to deliver decarbonisation seems like a long and potentially futile game. Rather, asks environmental philosopher David...
EP. 05 | Design and Democracy? Political Collectivities and Participation, with Anke Gruendel
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between design and democracy — and has it gone too far? The panacea of participation is widely prescribed, yet as researche...
EP. 04 | Framing Planetary Design, Part III: Intelligence, with Orit Halpern
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The irrepressible rise of AI sees us enter a feedback loop between artificial and human cognition, as discussed here by author and scholar of digital ...
EP. 03 | Framing Planetary Design, Part II: Values, with Claudia Mareis
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Postwar debates heralded the ingenuity of design, even as practitioners like Buckminster Fuller projected the “whole earth” as a testing ground. E...
EP. 02 | Framing Planetary Design, Part I: Scales, with Kenny Cupers
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Design is often called upon to solve problems that have their roots in political and ecological crises. Drawing upon his research on the history of Em...
EP. 01 | Introduction to "Planetary Design. Reclaiming Futures" with Governing through Design
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What possibilities unfold — political, social, cultural — if we propose design as a planetary endeavour, rather than as a problem solving activity...