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Mindfulness, Co-Design, Community Design, Participatory Action Research, Regenerative Design, Design Education
How might design be turned into a regenerative force in an era of multiple crises? Societal change requires new cultures of community, listening and self-perception, as well as the paths and solutions that emerge from the related processes. In her practice-based PhD project, Isabelle Dechamps investigates how mindfulness practice might facilitate co-creation processes that lead to more connectedness, responsibility and ecological-societal resilience. In the framework of her transcultural field research, she works with autoethnographic and immersive approaches in communities including Auroville (India), Plum Village (France) and Sieben Linden (Germany). There, she investigates lived mindfulness and forms of communal design. She then applies the results of this research in experiments based on design theory—specifically, participatory action research (PAR)—with the aim to entrench mindfulness practice and co-design in art and design teaching. The aim is to create a framework and toolset for learning formats around the puposeful communal design of transformation processes.
Isabelle Dechamps
Transformation Design, Eco-Social Design, Participatory Design
Eco-Social Innovation by Design (ESI)
Praveen Nahar, National Institute of Design (NID)
Prof. Dr. Gabriela Christen, Hochschule Luzern – Design Film Kunst
Transformation Design
National Institute of Design (NID)
