I’m a hybrid designer tinkering at the intersection of systems and futures. At present, I serve on the board of directors of Systemic Design Association.

I also run Imagination Workers Collective, partnering with people and organisations exploring flourishing equitable futures.

About me ︎︎︎



interaction

Vis Det!
Future of Work


service

Project Malnutrition
Project Self Worth


systems

Weath to Wellbeing
Languaging the Futures
Gentrification 2.0
Tangible Intangibles


research

Coversations for Action

H-SEIF Project

Academic Research


exhibitions

The Printed and the Built

The Stovner Project

© 2024 Palak Dudani, all rights reserved

Mark




Languaging the Futures

Role of language in imagining, shaping and materialising ‘pluriversal futures’




The complexities of today need designers who can anticipate, enact and propose ways for shaping alternative futures by design.

‘Lexicon’ looks at the intentionality of language and its central role in influencing how ‘futures’ are conceived, articulated and made.

Fuel4Design is a 3-year Erasmus + project delivered in partnership with Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Politecnico di Milano, University of the Arts London, and ELISAVA.  site ︎︎︎

As a project member, my role has been to support Prof. Morrison (AHO) in developing the module on ‘Lexicon’. 

A co-authored workshop based on this work was presented at the 9th Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium, NID Ahmedabad (Online), October 2020.




Workshop faciliated at RSD9 Conference. Our miro resource is open access  ︎︎︎ 



Tools and Resources


Design Futures Lexicon builds a bottom up shared vocabulary to assist, learning, teaching and research into design futures literacies.


See our open access resource here ︎︎︎
The digital versions have been developed in collaboration with Bastien Kerspern of studio Design Friction ︎︎︎

Octopa 


Octopa’s Journey is a narrative game-tool inviting the player to browse the futures of the Northern Sea Route.

Check out the resource ︎︎︎








Reflexicon


Reflexicon is a card game that uses design terms and combines them with provocative questions for designers to reflect on the intentionality of their project. 

Check out the resource ︎︎︎


More to come soon
Mark