Conversation 6.3. Not-Knowing and Open-Ended Practices in the Pluriverse

Discussion of Full Papers 1221 and 1231 from Full Paper Session 6 and Exploratory Papers (listed below). In this 19th edition of the PDC, Full and Exploratory papers will be organized into Conversations, that is, experimental formats of presentation and discussion of the papers based on triggering questions and authors’ interactions. 

Full Papers:

• 1221: Situated Relational Designing: Re-Discovering Relational Fragments towards Pluriversal Contact Zones by Examining Nordic Mythology.
  Authors: Rønnest, Otto; Riemann, Maja; Tassinari, Virginia.
  
• 1231: Infrastructuring and Place.
  Author: Christiansson, Jörn.

Exploratory Papers:

• 1591: In the Fermenting Corner: An Exploration of Boundaries and their Making in Co-ontological Participation at a Local Kimchi Store.
  Authors: Takita, Hinako; Inamura, Tokushu.
• 1611: Designing Within: A Participatory Exploration of Plural Place Naming in Gayogohó:nǫˀ Lands.
  Authors: Cortes-Rico, Laura; Csíkszentmíhalyi, Christopher.
  

The discussion will be guided by the following questions prepared by the Chairs: 

• Q1. How does your research cultivate practices of not-knowing, ambiguity, and openness that resist solutionist and instrumental design logics while supporting pluriversal forms of worlding and co-existence?​
• Q2. How would you suggest we, as researchers and designers, indulge in ideas of not-knowing?​
• Q3. In what ways do methodologies such as critical fabulation, multispecies ethnography, mythological re-storying, and place-based infrastructuring challenge colonial design epistemologies and reposition designers within contested landscapes of knowledge, belonging, and ontological plurality?