Designing Transitions Bottom-up: The agency of design in formation and proliferation of niche practices

Elif  Erdogan  Öztekin; Idil Gaziulusoy

doi:10.1080/14606925.2019.1594999

Designing Transitions Bottom-up: The agency of design in formation and proliferation of niche practices

Elif Erdogan Öztekin, Idil Gaziulusoy

Department of Design

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Sustainability transitions are generating comprehensive learning spaces, which yield substantial reconfigurations not only in our practices and actions, sociotechnical systems, but also in our cognitive constructs. This article tackles the agency of design in transitions, by particularly focusing on bottom-up and emergent learning processes at niches. An overview on common lines of inquiry from (1) design theory, (2) multi-level perspective (MLP) of system innovations and (3) practice theory (PT), which commonly address the agencies of design and learning in transitions, is presented. Consequently, we propose an integrative analytic-theoretical framework, and describe it with an exemplary analysis of a community-led transition project.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1659-1674
Number of pages	16
Journal	The Design Journal
Volume	22
Issue number	sup1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2019.1594999
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2019
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International European Academy of Design Conference: Running with Scissors - University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Apr 2019 → 12 Apr 2019 Conference number: 12 https://ead2019dundee.com/ https://ead2019dundee.com

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Sustainability transitions
Design Theory
Practice theory
multi level perspective
learning space

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