Agency, Enactment and Design Futures Literacies

In this essay, we reach for and work with many aspects of agency in critical creative making and reflection, human and non-human actors entwined in processes of designs and design knowing coming into being. In learning to learn and to unlearn design in these ways, that is as students and educators, we also need to be open to the force of norms and the pull of trends. Then there is the glow of the speculative and the hard ground of making choices out of multiple possibilities and continuing to learn with the trajectories and consequences that follow and emerge. Design work and its presentation, critique, analysis and evaluation, as (Mazé & Wangel, 2016: 286) remind us, needs to work actively and responsibly as critical practitioners and communicative researchers.