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SUPERORGANISM • RSD9
Practicing the
worlds we want
Prefigurative design for
revolutionary transformation
Tara Campbell Superorganism
Ariana Lutterman @superorganism__
www.superorg.ca
Ariana Lutterman
• she/her
• living on the traditional
territory of the Eno, Tuscarora,
and Shakori peoples
• aka Carrboro, NC
Tara Campbell
• she/her
• living on the traditional
territory of the Neutral,
Anishinaabe, and
Haudenosaunee peoples
• aka Waterloo, ON SUPERORGANISM • RSD9
sustainability
justice
conviviality
design for
sustainability
justice
conviviality
design as a practice for
revolutionary
transformation
How do you work for
another world while
living in the one you
are trying to change?
How do you push
for revolutionary
transformation when
you might have just a
small influence?
How do you take
action for change
in a complex world
you can’t entirely
understand?
“what we practice at
the small scale sets the
patterns for the whole
system.”
adrienne maree brown, 2017
“what we practice at
the small scale sets the
patterns for the whole
system.”
adrienne maree brown, 2017
“the master’s tools will
never dismantle the
master’s house.”
Audre Lorde, 1984
“It matters what
thoughts think
thoughts.”
Donna Haraway, 2015
“It matters what
thoughts think
thoughts.”
Donna Haraway, 2015
The way we do things
matters.
The way we do things
matters.
The way we design
matters.
Prefigurative politics
Prefigurative politics embody
"within the ongoing political
practice of a movement ...
those forms of social relations,
decision-making, culture, and
human experience that are the
ultimate goal"
Boggs, 1977
"the practice of occupation and
the very mode of existence of
the movement are themselves
prefigurative of a new,
more democratic and more
egalitarian world"
Deseriis & Dean, 2012
Prefigurative design
Prefigurative design
Prefigurative design involves
the manifestation of a desired
future into present practices.
Asad, 2018
CAPABILITIES. POSSIBILITIES.
DESIRES.
DESIRES.
The future we want will require
different societal skills, and
these can be developed
through prefigurative practices
Raekstad, 2017
DESIRES.
Prefigurative practices are
important for generating
revolutionary consciousness
and understandings of what is
possible.
Raekstad, 2017
DESIRES.
Prefigurative practices
allow people to experience
alternatives and discover needs
the did not know existed.
Raekstad, 2017
DESIRES.
+
CREATIVITY.
Prefigurative design “is both an
expressive and experimental
endeavor. Through the
processes of enactment, we not
only indicate the social relations
we desire; we also test what
works, and does not work”
Disalvo, 2016
DESIRES.
+
CREATIVITY.
+
FUTURING.
Let's practice
prefigurative design.
Values
+
Principles
+
Prefigurative speculation
Values
+
Principles
+
Values
1. Choose three values you
want to see in the world.
Values
1. Choose three values you
want to see in the world.
What is good, beautiful, or
constructive? What do you want
to be prioritized in the world?
Values
+
Principles
+
Principles
Principles direct action by
“[providing] guidance about
how to think or behave toward
some desired result”
Patton, 2018
Principles ≠ rules
"Rules prescribe precisely: You
must do this specifically and
precisely. Principles provide
guidance: Do this in such a
way that your actions fit the
situation." SUPERORGANISM • RSD9
Principles ≠ rules
E.g.
Value = sustainability
Principle = consider influence
into the far future instead of
orienting definitions of success
around immediate effects
Values
+
Principles
+
Principles
2. Translate your values into
principles.
Prefigurative
speculation
3. Given this hypothetical
scenario, speculate as to how
you might adapt your practice
following your principles.
How do you work for
another world while
living in the one you
are trying to change?
How do you push
for revolutionary
transformation when
you might have just a
small influence?
How do you take
action for change
in a complex world
you can’t entirely
understand?
Tara Campbell Superorganism
Ariana Lutterman @superorganism__
www.superorg.ca
hello@superorg.ca
Prefigurative
speculation
3. Given this hypothetical
scenario, speculate as to how
you might adapt your practice
following your principles.

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