Editorial

Two (or three) Tangles

Prem Krishnamurthy writes us a letter. A letter that exemplifies the tangle, weaving moments from his collaborative practice into a meandering text on slowing down, embracing bumpiness and decentring direct design processes. In doing so, Prem illustrates the importance of social and human attention to the design process.

It’s Oh So Quiet (about Palestine)

In their essay, Noam Youngrak Son listens to the silence of the design industry in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Critiquing design’s historical involvement with humanitarian crises in this current global context, Noam dismantles the financialised risks of activism assumed by design institutions, seeking and signposting a higher calling for practices of design that reach beyond simply the accumulation of capital.

When a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, do I accumulate symbolic capital?

Arja Karhumaa interrogates the relationship between design academics and design practitioners within the realm of publishing; two step-sisterly professionalisms that can struggle to see eye-to-eye in the quest to disseminate ideas. Writing from her perspective as a weaver of many threads of practice, Arja cross-examines the production of knowledge within the design field, embracing and untangling the complexities within her own publishing communities.

No Word is an Island: Naming a Tangle

Cinnamon buns, connotations and opossum babies are utilised in this essay about language communities in general and the title of this festival in particular.