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Keune, S., Hruza, S., Ståhl, Å. & Tham, M. (2024). Holding Surplus House, exploring built environment through giving form to a household that takes what is at hand – and striving to share a surplus. In: Ten Research Projects on Art in Designed Living Environments – Final Conference: . Paper presented at Ten Research Projects on Art in Designed Living Environments – Final Conference, ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, 15 November, 2024. (pp. 21-23). ArkDes, Stockholm
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2024 (English)In: Ten Research Projects on Art in Designed Living Environments – Final Conference, ArkDes, Stockholm, 2024, p. 21-23Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]

In Holding Surplus House we have been inquiring into change for multispecies flourishing - starting in households as dynamic units, experimenting with resources, values and seasons. We have made two main tracks: Citizen Budgeting and Seasonal Clothing

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ArkDes, Stockholm: , 2024
Keywords
design, designed living environment, sustainability, citizen budgeting
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-133503 (URN)
Conference
Ten Research Projects on Art in Designed Living Environments – Final Conference, ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, 15 November, 2024.
Projects
HSH, Holding Surplus House
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2020-02450
Note

Recording of the presentation can be found at 2 h 20 mins with comments at 2 h 50 mins. In addition, there is a panel at about 5 h 22 mins.

Available from: 2024-11-21 Created: 2024-11-21 Last updated: 2024-11-25Bibliographically approved
Velasquez Salazar, J. P., Ståhl, Å., Tham, M., Lee, Y. K. & Svanberg, T. (2023). The Systemic Value of Water at Home: Social norms, behaviours, and design. In: PROCEEDINGS OF RELATING SYSTEMS THINKING AND DESIGN, RSD12: . Paper presented at Relating Systems Thinking and Design 12. Georgetown University Press
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2023 (English)In: PROCEEDINGS OF RELATING SYSTEMS THINKING AND DESIGN, RSD12, Georgetown University Press, 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Access to clean and healthy water in households is a global concern. Although the value of water is recognised, human actions demonstrate the opposite. Uncontrolled consumption, increasing drylands, deterioration, and pollution of water sources are some manifestations of the human water footprint. These actions evidence a paradox of value, a discrepancy between the intention and the action of water care. To this extent, and to decipher this paradox, this research project was conducted through design where the systemic value of water was studied in the context of Swedish households. The central question was to identify what are those values, mindsets, norms, behaviours, and lifestyles associated with the use of freshwater in households. In addressing this question, theories such as social norms, behaviour, and systems, as well as local, regional, and global projects, were reviewed, and the behaviour was mapped with the help of open surveys, as well as with stakeholders involving a technical expert from government, design teachers and industry-connected designers with the intention of revealing the systemic value of water. As a result, two areas of the system emerged that are useful for guiding design efforts to reduce the intention-action gap. The first area focuses on mapping norms and behaviours with respect to value preferences and expectations. These norms and behaviours were organised into levels of product and service design and systemic, organisational, and social design. The second area identified twenty behavioural components that were grouped into four factors related to the functioning of motivation, education, information, and social relations that increase the water value gap.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Georgetown University Press, 2023
Keywords
Water Value, Social Norms, Behaviour, Systemic Design
National Category
Design Climate Research Human Geography Cultural Studies
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-132395 (URN)
Conference
Relating Systems Thinking and Design 12
Projects
Postdoctoral position - Valuing Water: Designing norms and behaviours for water positive lives at home
Funder
Linnaeus University
Available from: 2024-09-10 Created: 2024-09-10 Last updated: 2024-09-13Bibliographically approved
Tham, M. (2022). Up Close and Personal: Metadesign Meditation to Find Agency for Careful Earth Work from Within a Ball of Yarn. In: Wood, J. (Ed.), Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene: . Routledge
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2022 (English)In: Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene / [ed] Wood, J., Routledge, 2022Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The chapter positions a belief that we can and must have overview before we act as a barrier to real change, a belief intertwined with the economic growth logic, sexism, racism and human exceptionalism that co-creates unsustainability. Instead, it proposes metadesign as an uncompromisingly systemic and holistic craft of making change from within a ball of yarn. It takes the reader on a journey and meditation from Me to We to World and Back Again, exploring how a system of approaches—languaging, learning and governance—can support change agency from within each position. The chapter foregrounds care as a relational, intimate practice of healing available to anyone, anywhere; thereby decentralising response ability (Haraway, 2008) in the face of urgent convergent social and ecological crises.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2022
Series
Design Research for Change
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-119407 (URN)10.4324/9781003205371-3 (DOI)2-s2.0-85136059926 (Scopus ID)9781032067520 (ISBN)9781003205371 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-02-16 Created: 2023-02-16 Last updated: 2023-02-16Bibliographically approved
Tham, M. (2020). Caring from within Fashion: Letter to Emerging Fashion Activists. In: Maria Ben Saad (Ed.), Critical Fashion Project: . Stockholm: Beckmans College of Design
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2020 (English)In: Critical Fashion Project / [ed] Maria Ben Saad, Stockholm: Beckmans College of Design , 2020Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This text explores what it can be like to care from within fashion, drawing on the experience of activism from within fashion since the mid 1990s. It offers a metadesign framework with nested levels of fashion activity to identify agentic spaces in fashion and beyond.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Beckmans College of Design, 2020
Keywords
fashion, activism, metadesign
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101909 (URN)
Available from: 2021-03-31 Created: 2021-03-31 Last updated: 2021-04-20Bibliographically approved
Tham, M. (2020). Equality. In: Eduardo Staszowski, Virginia Tassinari (Ed.), Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (pp. 91-94). London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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2020 (English)In: Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon / [ed] Eduardo Staszowski, Virginia Tassinari, London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts , 2020, p. 91-94Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This chapter, discusses the notion of Equality in Hannah Arendt's work, and how equality can purposefully be practised in and through design. It proposes a set of principles for designing equality, specifically informed by the notion that genuine equality work is risky, because it necessitates taking sides; not being anti-racist is being racist. The chapter points to the intersectionality of sexism and racism with hierarchies of ways of knowing - epistemology.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020
Series
Designing in dark times/Radical thinkers in design
Keywords
design, equality
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101908 (URN)9781350070264 (ISBN)978-1-3500-7025-7 (ISBN)978-1-3500-7027-1 (ISBN)978-1-3500-7028-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-03-31 Created: 2021-03-31 Last updated: 2021-04-23Bibliographically approved
Tham, M. (2019). BOOST metadesign. In: Mathilda Tham, Åsa Ståhl, Sara Hyltén-Cavallius (Ed.), Oikology – Home Ecologics: A book about building and home making for permaculture and for making our home together on Earth (pp. 19-56). Växjö: Linnaeus University Press
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2019 (English)In: Oikology – Home Ecologics: A book about building and home making for permaculture and for making our home together on Earth / [ed] Mathilda Tham, Åsa Ståhl, Sara Hyltén-Cavallius, Växjö: Linnaeus University Press, 2019, p. 19-56Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Introduction to the project BOOST metadesign, and the context of metadesign.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Växjö: Linnaeus University Press, 2019
Keywords
Metadesign
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-92797 (URN)978-91-88898-72-2 (ISBN)978-91-88898-73-9 (ISBN)
Projects
BOOST metadesign
Funder
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Available from: 2020-03-10 Created: 2020-03-10 Last updated: 2020-03-12Bibliographically approved
Tham, M., Jones, H., Hyltén-Cavallius, S., Lundebye, A. & Lockheart, J. (2019). Care-Oke: A silly-serious design joke. In: Ramia Mazé, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Satu Miettinen, Namkyu Chun (Ed.), Nordes 2019: Who Cares?: Proceedings of the 8th Bi-Annual Nordic Design Research Society Conference - Who Cares?. Paper presented at The 8th Bi-Annual Nordic Design Research Society Conference - Who Cares? 2-4th of June 2019 Finland (pp. 44-45). Espoo: Aalto University
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2019 (English)In: Nordes 2019: Who Cares?: Proceedings of the 8th Bi-Annual Nordic Design Research Society Conference - Who Cares? / [ed] Ramia Mazé, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Satu Miettinen, Namkyu Chun, Espoo: Aalto University , 2019, p. 44-45Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simultaneously manifest and probe care of self, care of others, care of community, care of matters of care in collaboration. We argue that such silly-serious approaches have an important role to play in injecting vulnerability, social risk-taking, feminist ways of knowing into complex change work addressing complex global challenges. Participants will experience coming together in care-oke, and reflecting on what singing as caring can mean for design cultures and collaborations.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Espoo: Aalto University, 2019
Series
Nordes Digital Archive, ISSN 1604-9705 ; 8
Keywords
care, singing, co-creation, risk-taking, sustainability, feminism, metadesign
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-93036 (URN)
Conference
The 8th Bi-Annual Nordic Design Research Society Conference - Who Cares? 2-4th of June 2019 Finland
Available from: 2020-03-20 Created: 2020-03-20 Last updated: 2020-05-12Bibliographically approved
Fletcher, K., St Pierre, L. & Tham, M. (2019). Conclusion. In: Kate Fletcher, Louise St Pierre, Mathilda Tham (Ed.), Design and Nature: A Partnership (pp. 198-202). London: Routledge
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2019 (English)In: Design and Nature: A Partnership / [ed] Kate Fletcher, Louise St Pierre, Mathilda Tham, London: Routledge, 2019, p. 198-202Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2019
Keywords
Design, nature, relationships, sustainability
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-93031 (URN)10.4324/9781351111515-30 (DOI)9780815362739 (ISBN)9780815362746 (ISBN)9781351111515 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-03-20 Created: 2020-03-20 Last updated: 2021-11-11Bibliographically approved
Fletcher, K., St. Pierre, L. & Tham, M. (Eds.). (2019). Design and Nature: A Partnership. London: Routledge
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2019 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.

Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2019. p. 216
Keywords
Design, nature, partnership, ways of knowing, sustainability
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-92823 (URN)10.4324/9781351111515 (DOI)2-s2.0-85077834589 (Scopus ID)9780815362746 (ISBN)9780815362739 (ISBN)9781351111515 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-03-10 Created: 2020-03-10 Last updated: 2023-10-13Bibliographically approved
Tham, M. (2019). Dirty Design (or A Bloody Mess): In Celebration of Life Affirming Design. In: Kate Fletcher, Louise St. Pierre, Mathilda Tham (Ed.), Design and Nature: A Partnership (pp. 136-143). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dirty Design (or A Bloody Mess): In Celebration of Life Affirming Design
2019 (English)In: Design and Nature: A Partnership / [ed] Kate Fletcher, Louise St. Pierre, Mathilda Tham, London: Routledge, 2019, p. 136-143Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter explores how design, employed as a measure of hygiene and control of diversity, is scaled of from products to societal models. It mixes theoretical perspectives with autoethnography, through writing and drawing, and speculation. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2019
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design; Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-92822 (URN)10.4324/9781351111515-20 (DOI)2-s2.0-85077834031 (Scopus ID)9780815362746 (ISBN)9780815362739 (ISBN)9781351111515 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-03-10 Created: 2020-03-10 Last updated: 2021-11-11Bibliographically approved
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