Anna Bertmark
Consuming New Narratives
Meeting problems through tangible artefacts
The current dominant narratives of endless economic growth are contributing to unsustainable conditions that prevent humans from living within planetary boundaries. Many current sustainable alternatives fall short of embodying regenerative and just principles, casting doubt on human capacity for mitigating climate change. This highlights the need for positive alternatives that can redirect the future of consumption.
Second-order Design Fictions (SoDF’s) is a method for questioning and reframing our relationship with the entrenched fictions that are part of dominant narratives. These half-familiar and tangible artefacts allow for critical sense-making that playfully provoke questions around the power structures and assumptions that uphold the consumption patterns that we engage in daily. SoDF’s seek to interfere with consensus and allow observation of observations of how to address the tensions between structures of thinking and formulates complexity of reality and possibility.
The project and builds upon work by Dulmini Perera, Superflux, The Liminal Space and Do The Green Thing.
