Grounded in (graphic) design, The U[ ]DR begins from the understanding that design is a plural and expanded field, entangled with the material, cultural, and structural conditions through which knowledge is produced and contested. Within this context, The U[ ]DR takes uncentring as its guiding stance: a refusal of singular perspectives, fixed boundaries, and stable epistemologies.
Rather than anchor design research within a single domain or method, The U[ ]DR foregrounds the situated, relational, and context-dependent nature of design practice. It works with design’s migratory capacity: its ability to move between subjects, connect ideas, and respond to shifting urgencies. As such, The U[ ]DR engages with a constellation of design-centred inquiries, including (but not limited to) death, ecologies, sound, resistance, discursivity, ageing, agency, labour, authorship, power, pedagogy, semiotics, and artificial intelligence.
This breadth of inquiry informs The U[ ]DR’s commitment to cultivating research for, through, and about design – research that unsettles inherited assumptions, holds space for multiple perspectives, and remains open to emerging conditions and entangled futures.
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