The author disassembles the language of design to realise broader
conceptions of temporality, design spaces, roles, and entities
implicated in design processes. Based on two case studies of fledgling
communities (seniors aging together) and emergent collectives
(citizens and city officials sharing locative media), the thesis shows
how continuities and collaboration can be achieved between design and
life-practices more generally. A significant move is the re-conception
of ‘design space’ to capture the wider interplay of possibilities,
practices, partly assembled technologies; as well as developing
competencies and social arrangements that are the basis for ongoing
design choices. Design space(s) presents us with a collection of
principles and practices, to design within and for communal endeavours.