This publication invites designers, students, and teachers to explore un/making – an approach to design that is open, reflective, and relational. Rather than offering a single definition, it gathers many ways of understanding and practising un/making across different contexts.

Through examples and reflections by Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström, un/making is shown as a way to rethink design beyond production and progress. It invites slowing down, noticing what exists, and caring for what might need to be undone, maintained, or reworked.

By engaging with both human and more-than-human worlds, un/making encourages design that is attentive, response-able, and open to what is already here and what is yet to come. Un/making thereby opens possibilities to unlearn how design has been taught and tries to turn away from design practices, principles, products, aesthetics, and imaginaries that are polluting everyday lives to the extent that species and life forms become extinct.

What would you like to un/make?