Tools, Means and Mediating Design Futures Education

Our ongoing engagement with design tools and meaning making in design pedagogy asks that we are curious, creative and critical about how we work with materials, artifacts, processes, participation and contexts of use. These are contexts that are futural in nature yet oriented toward the present and they are implicated in the past. In working towards exploring and materialising design futures in the plural, it is in the emergent and ongoing situations of use that anticipatory design pedagogies are relationally and reflexively and developed and realised. Critical takes on our legacies as well as our creative design generative imaginaries, however, may converge in our immediate present. They are influenced too by how it is that we learn, live and work in the unfolding contemporary dynamics of the now.