Table Of ContentArtistic Cartography and Design
Explorations Towards the Pluriverse
This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not
only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global
systems.
The contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological
and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways are there for
knowledge transfer, supporting plural agendas, fnding novel ways for unsettling
conversations, unlearning and learning and challenging power structures with
marginalised groups and contexts through art and design? The main themes of the
book are art and design methods, epistemologies and practices that provide critical,
interdisciplinary, pluriversal and decolonial considerations. The book challenges the
domination of the white logic of art and design and shifts away from the Anglo-
European one-world system towards the pluriverse.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, arts-
based research and design studies.
Satu Miettinen is a dean and professor in service design at the Faculty of Art and
Design, University of Lapland, Finland.
Enni Mikkonen is a postdoctoral researcher in social work at the University of
Lapland, Finland.
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos is a professor of design at the University of São
Paulo, Brazil.
Melanie Sarantou is an adjunct professor in social design at the University of Lapland,
Finland.
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Artistic Cartography and
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Edited by Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen,
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, and
Melanie Sarantou
Designed cover image: A visual map of plurality called “Reindeer Melanie”
that is layering of two images: an image of a reindeer in a forest near
Rovaniemi (2021) and an image by Taina Kontio “Backyard Explorers”
(2019). Women’s Spaces exhibition in 2022, AMASS-project experiment
SoftPowerArt. Photography by Satu Miettinen (2022).
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Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
List of Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xviii
Preface xix
ANDREA W. MIGNOLO AND WALTER D. MIGNOLO
Foreword: The European Commission policy for promoting arts to
tackle societal challenges and increase cohesion and inclusion xxiii
CHRISTINA SARVANI AND JARKKO SIREN
1 Introduction: Artistic cartographies and design explorations
towards the pluriverse 1
SATU MIETTINEN, ENNI MIKKONEN, MARIA CECILIA LOSCHIAVO
DOS SANTOS AND MELANIE SARANTOU
SECTION I
Pluriversal A/r/tographies 15
2 Record of a multispecies creative exploration in the austral forests 17
MARILUZ SOTO HORMAZÁBAL AND MAURICIO TOLOSA
3 Dialogues for plurality—art-based exchange for strengthening youth’s
role as agents of change 28
KATRI KONTTINEN, ENNI MIKKONEN AND MIKKO YLISUVANTO
4 Multiperspective take on pluriversal agenda in artistic research 40
MARIJA GRINIUK, DARIA AKIMENKO, SATU MIETTINEN,
HEIDI PIETARINEN AND MELANIE SARANTOU
5 A critical retrospective on whiteness in Possible Worlds video artwork 55
MARI MÄKIRANTA AND OUTI YLITAPIO-MÄNTYLÄ
6 New genre Arctic art in the city of Rovaniemi: Promotion of
de-Arctifcation and pluralism 64
MARIA HUHMARNIEMI AND MIRJA HILTUNEN
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7 Expanding design narratives through handmade embroidery
production: A dialogue with a community of women in Passira,
Pernambuco, Brazil 74
ANA JULIA MELO ALMEIDA AND MARIA CECILIA LOSCHIAVO DOS SANTOS
8 Afrikana—burying colonial bones to harvest seeds and bouquets
of plurality 86
MICHELLE OLGA VAN WYK
SECTION II
Design explorations towards the Pluriverse 97
9 Excluding by design 99
PETER WEST
10 Knowledge plurality for greater university-community permeability:
Experiences in art and design from feldwork 110
CAOIMHE ISHA BEAULÉ, ÉLISABETH KAINE, ÉTIENNE LEVAC,
ANNE MARCHAND AND JEAN-FRANÇOIS VACHON
11 Other worlds are possible: Advanced computational and design
thinking in South Auckland 123
RICARDO SOSA
12 Pluriverse perspectives in designing for a cultural heritage context in
the digital age 134
JONNA HÄKKILÄ, SIIRI PAANANEN, MARI SUOHEIMO AND MAIJA MÄKIKALLI
13 Centring relationships more than humans and things: Translating design
through the culture of the Far East 144
NAMKYU CHUN
14 Professionalised designing in between plural makings 156
ZHIPENG DUAN
15 Enacting plurality in designing social innovation: Developing a culturally
grounded twenty-frst-century leadership programme for
a Cambodian context 171
JOYCE YEE, SOVAN SRUN AND LAURA SMITHEMAN
Contents vii
SECTION III
The pluriverse of activism, diversity and accessibility 187
16 A history of design education in Brazil: A decolonial perspective 189
JÚLIO CÉSAR TAMER OKABAYASHI AND
MARIA CECÍLIA LOSCHIAVO DOS SANTOS
17 Unveiling the layered structures of Youth Work 195
ANA NUUTINEN AND ENNI MIKKONEN
18 Making IMPACT: Visibility status in participatory projects 203
TERESA TORRES DE EÇA AND ÂNGELA SALDANHA
19 Flag: A shared horizon 217
HEIDI PIETARINEN, AMNA QURESHI AND MELANIE SARANTOU
20 Ghost bike agency and urban culture through art activism 228
EDUARDO RUMENIG, JULIO TALHARI, MARIA CECILIA L. DOS SANTOS
AND LUIZ E.P.B.T. DANTAS
21 Mediating social interaction through a chatbot to leverage
the diversity of a community: Tensions, paradoxes, and opportunities 234
AMALIA DE GÖTZEN, PETER KUN, LUCA SIMEONE, AND NICOLA MORELLI
Index 243
Figures
2.1 Four screenshots from the flm with trees and a man walking through
the forest or writing inside the forest 24
2.2 A poster with a burned tree in the middle in a landscape
with mountains 25
3.1 Youth’s installation in the gallery space by Mahdi, Mohammad,
Davoud and Dawod, 2021 30
3.2 The youth used languages creatively in the workshops 35
3.3 The youth explained that the colours symbolise joy, sorrow and
life as they painted the fag of Afghanistan 36
4.1 Collage. The research PhD project ‘Techno-voyeurism into the
Performing Body’ presented at Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm,
2021 45
4.2 A jacquard woven ‘kangas’ (2021) fabric is designed by Heidi
Pietarinen, Noora Sandgren, Anne Youncha and Melissa Grant 46
4.3 Collage of artworks by Sherrie Jones, Sanna Sillgren, Vera Tessmer
and Laura Pokela displayed at the exhibition ‘Have you met my sister’ 47
4.4 Placemaking with a drone camera in Vuontisjärvi 48
4.5 Placemaking through Performance at Vänö island 49
4.6 Placemaking through performance on the banks of the Kemijoki
(Kemi River) 49
5.1 Still images of the video artwork Possible Worlds 56
6.1 Al-Fateh Ali Mousa and Mirja Hiltunen posing in the launch of the
Ishtar Gate and a postcard by Saba Majid 68
6.2 Maria Huhmarniemi’s On the Way Home (2021) series of digital
photographs 69
6.3 Setting up the artwork by Tomas Colbengtson, 2021, Ruávinjargâ 70
7.1 Exterior space at the headquarters of the Association of Women
Artisans of Passira in 2014 with some of the group’s embroiderers 76
7.2 and 7.3 Publications produced for Bordados de Passira (Embroideries
of Passira). On the left: ‘It’s just a notion without any meaning,
then when you put the thread in it, you give it life’, as stated by the
artisan Maria Lúcia Firmino dos Santos. On the right: ‘Behind the
embroidery is the tradition of generations of women in Passira’, as
stated by researcher Ana Julia Melo Almeida 77
Figures ix
7.4 Embroidery production of the AMAP artisans. The image shows
drawn thread work in the piece on the lower right with chainstitch
and hemstitch 78
7.5 Homepage of Bordados de Passira produced with crowdfunding 82
7.6 One of the pieces in the Abelhas (Bees) collection produced in the
workshops from Bordados de Passira using the characteristic drawn
thread embroidery 83
8.1 Methodology of Afrikanism in practice 91
8.2 Immersion in making: Process images of making with polymer clay 92
8.3 Baked pieces with colour added ready to be added to the fndings
(fxtures that hold the jewellery to the body) 93
9.1 This image was presented in the EEA workshops as an initial,
relatable example of Indigenous sovereignties as a foundation and
the colonial designed response 102
10.1 Okacic (walleye) fllet 112
10.2 Creative workshop—thematic modelling, strategies and
museographic means at the Matakan Camp in Manawan, 2011 114
11.1 Key themes informing the Robot for Mayor 2030 project and a
session with rangatahi in Manurewa 130
12.1 Digital Access to Sámi Heritage Archives project staff visiting
Kilpisjärvi, which is located in the Arctic region in the
Northwesternmost part of Finland 137
12.2 A multidisciplinary UI design workshop on ethical guidelines in action 138
12.3 A remote user exploring a virtual cultural heritage exhibition object,
3D modelled from a physical museum exhibition piece 139
12.4 Virtual reality modelled version of the historical graveyard in the
development phase 140
13.1 A scheme of relationship-centred design 147
13.2 A compilation of the images from four cases 149
13.3 A summary of the four cases on relationship-centred design from
South Korea 152
14.1 The ‘project meeting’ in the doctor’s offce 165
14.2 Training patients to use the platform: research and rehabilitation 166
15.1 CLEAR leadership development pyramid 181
18.1 Story telling activity near the river 209
18.2 Folk stories and printmaking—ASSOL, June 2020 209
18.3 Kit ‘Isolate with Love’ 210
18.4 Notebook collection designed and produced in ASSOL bindery called
‘Unlikely Collection’ (Coleção Improvável) 212
18.5 Postcard exchanged between APECV and ASSOL participants during
the COVID-19 lockdown 213
19.1 The outlet for youth 221
19.2 Final Net (a) 223
19.3 Final Net (b) 223
20.1 Digital cartography of the ghost bikes in the São Paulo
municipality 230
