Assistant Professor at UTFPR. Critical Pedagogy, Theater of the Oppressed, and Participatory Design. Twitts em português em @usabilidoido
Gainesville, FL
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How is Transition Design being practised ten years after its emergence? 💡
In this study, Michelle A. Miller examines 35 cases of Transition Design in practice and its role in supporting systems change.
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what are mutualistic interfaces? a deep meditation on the core of #servicedesign or whatever you want to call it
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Frederick van Amstel retweeted
This Friday! Register to attend the DRS Education SIG Futures of Design Education discussion: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-paulo…
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come and talk to us about the Paulo Freire Method applied to design education eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-paulo…
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Frederick van Amstel retweeted
Register to attend next month's DRS Education SIG Futures of Design Education discussion! The event is free for DRS Members and non-Members. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-paulo…
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do you feel oppressed by technology? Come and join me for a Theater of the Techno-Oppressed workshop at Delft Design for Values Institute on Tuesday, 21 April 2026
delftdesignforvalues.nl/even…
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I am coming to Hasselt University on the 27th of April to give an overview of UTFPR's prospective design program
uhasselt.be/nl/faculteiten/f…
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I will deliver a face-to-face lecture at Timelab in Gent, Belgium, on 23/04/2026 entitled "Designing mutualistic interfaces" timelab.org/events/1923
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full syllabus of our Prospective Design Studies course, taught last semester. It provides an overview of the field, discussing the categories of structures, relational qualities, trajectory, design, and prospecting fredvanamstel.com/teaching/p…
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join us in the online book launch for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Service Design: Plural perspectives and a critical contemporary agenda
19 February 2026 | 4:00-6:00 pm CET
NewSchool.zoom.us/j/99743841…
Password: 275352
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last semester, I taught Design and Culture focusing on coding and decoding identity and difference in design, including gender, class, and racial differences. full syllabus here lnkd.in/d6yMJ_zp
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meet I am my trash (2023), the making of a positionality self-portrait with one-week of trash
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new book chapter on the coloniality of making coauthored with @gonzatto @carmemsaito
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do you have an outstanding participatory design project to share? Have you done something artful? Please submit an application to the Artful Integrators Award. It is a great way of receiving collective recognition for collective achievements pdc2026.polimi.it/david-hakk…
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Frederick van Amstel retweeted
NEW ARTICLE AVAILABLE
The Contradiction of Institutional Diversity in the Design Student Body
AUTHORS
Hien L. D. Phan | @pldhdesign
Frederick M. C. van Amstel | @fredvanamstel
doi.org/10.7764/disena.27.Ar…
Texto completo también en español
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¿Te gustaría hacer una Maestría en Diseño Prospectivo en Brasil con todo incluido? La UTFPR ofrece una beca exclusiva para estudiantes extranjeros que hablen portugués o español hasta el 29/09. Inscripción en gov.br/capes/pt-br/centrais-…
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in this new paper co-written with Hiền Phan, we look at the contradiction of institutional diversity as it manifests in the design student body, building on the work of Sara Ahmed revistadisena.uc.cl/index.ph…
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we have one foreign student scholarship in our new Master's in Prospective Design utfpr.edu.br/noticias/geral/…
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new publication with P.D. Commoners, presented at NORDES: The Relational Becoming of a Participatory Design Commoner
doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2025…
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