Hope (Kris Krois)

The belief that things are going wrong and nothing can be done about it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Such political depression is disempowering, while actions carried by solidarity and emancipatory collectivity can cure political depression and improve messy realities. There are no guarantees of success, but moving collectively has been shown to overcome hopelessness and create concrete changes. By continuing and interconnecting, conditions favorable to profound transformation are becoming more probable and can be seized by those who are active, organized, and alert. Even if this possibility is not realized and the worst collapse scenarios continue to unfold, having practiced solidarity and built supporting structures makes a real difference. In this sense, hope is an emancipatory and empowering attitude, practice, and infrastructure. This belief resonated throughout the complementary contributions to the By Design and By Disaster Conference 2025. This book is born of that event.

Kris Krois co-creates design practices, tools, and strategies for emancipatory socio-ecological transformations as an activist and a professor for eco-social design. Since 2013 he has co-curated the annual conference, By Design and by Disaster. Mustapha El Moussaoui is an assistant professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. His research investigates how emerging technologies are transforming architectural thinking, design authorship, spatial experience, and the future role of architects. Alongside this theoretical trajectory, he researches on AI-assisted architectural design and tools for sustainable cities. Teresa Palmieri, PhD in Architecture, is a design researcher developing and utilising participatory design methodologies. She uses design to create bridges between governments, institutions, communities and grassroots organisations in just and sustainable eco-social transformation processes in the public, everyday and organisational realms. Ingrid Kofler is Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication and Culture at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Her research focuses on social imaginaries, borderscapes, participatory and futures-oriented methodologies, and eco-social transformation. She adopts transdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of sociology, design, and participation. Seçil Ugur Yavuz focuses on designing relational objects, probes, and technologies that foster social-ecological change. With a research- through-design approach, she develops experiential artifacts and embodied interaction to reimagine human and more-than-human relationalities, contributing to more sustainable and desirable future(s).

Buch (Paperback), Englisch, 396 Seiten