ABSTRACT

The chapter reflects on design thinking and training as an integral part of the global crisis yet also a sphere of its potential overcoming. It focuses on the main aspects of the crisis in design education within the broader higher education failure manifesting epistemic derelationality, commercialisation, depoliticisation, and instrumentalisation, and reinstatement of Euromodern epistemic frames. The question is how to learn, unlearn and relearn together to think and act creatively and pre-figuratively and continue building alternative relational spaces and models of positive transition and redirective ontological designing for refuturing that would incorporate a larger specter of human and non-human interests.