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Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Bibliographic Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword John Thackara -- Introduction: Designing for Sustainability and Strategic Design Ezio Manzini -- Design Context: Enabling Solutions for Sustainable Urban Everyday Life Ezio Manzini -- Sustainable Design Stuart Walker -- Significance beyond Functional Singularity Barry Wylant -- Workshop Theme: Envisioning a Culture of Sustainability Stuart Walker and Barry Wylant -- Workshop Projects -- (1) FlexMobility: Community Car-Sharing Agency -- (2) All the Street's a Stage: Making a Scene, Revitalizing Community -- (3) Calgary Garden Connections: People Growing People -- (4) My Classroom: Home-based Community Learning Centres -- Notes -- Back Cover.

Today's environmental emergency requires specific efforts in terms of thinking/acting in designing. The consequences of anthropocentric ways of producing, consuming and living are becoming painfully clear. Design played (and often still plays) a role in this, and therefore has in many ways contributed to feed this anthropocentric mindset, considering human interests separated from the ones of the planet's. Design has a shared responsibility in this – what Fry calls – "de-futuring process" (1) produced by anthropocentrism, and it is hence obliged to recognize the risks connected to this anthropocentric mindset and its consequences. In this regard, designers are currently, and increasingly, becoming aware that an ontological shift is needed. What does it mean to take this "ontological turn" seriously? Which thinking in contemporary philosophy and anthropology can help designers – and particular- ly the ones dealing with subfields of design such as Participatory Design and Design for Social Innovation - to develop non-anthropocentric, non-de-futuring reflective practices that might account for the radical interrelationship between people and the planet? Which kinds of transformative reflective practices might these modes of thinking possibly nurture?

Today's socio-environmental challenges have been made more evident by the current COVID-19 crisis, with implications on various scale levels, intensifying cultural, social, political and environmental questions. Those questions must be addressed in a combined and not distinct way, requiring specific efforts in terms of thinking/acting in designing. In this DESIS Philosophy Talk, we want to explore which of our design competences we need to strengthen in order to create shared worlds that span different scale levels by developing what we call here "Re- worlding platforms". It will build on a rich cultural tradition in Participatory Design of bridging people and groups together, including silent and silenced actors (human and non-human ones). While in the last years some attention has been paid in how to care for the non-human to be part of the political discourse, with the idea of Re-worlding we also underline that many silent and silenced human actors still need to be given a voice.