What's Around Design?: Strategic and Speculative Biodesign for a Sustainable Future: Volume One

by Américo Mateus (Editor), Gabriel Patrocinio (Editor), Susana Leonor (Editor)

Overview

This book presents volume one of the proceedings of the "What's Around Design?" meeting, held October 2024 in Algarve, Portugal. The chapters here cover a wide variety of topics related to design futures and how design and specifically biodesign can contribute to sustainability. The book's coverage includes but is not limited to biodesign, speculative biofutures, nature-based solutions, and strategic design for green transitions. All chapters in this book were subject to double-blind peer review.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783032081629
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	12/23/2025
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Américo Mateus is a lecturer and researcher at ISMAT–Lusófona Group, Portimão, and integrated senior researcher at CIAUD–Research Center in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design, FAUL–COFAC. His research focuses on participatory design, nature-based solutions, circular economy, biodesign, and innovation, with extensive involvement in European research and innovation projects. He serves as an expert in Taskforce 6–Co-creation of Nature-Based Solutions of the European Commission and is a director of the Nature-Based Solutions HUB Portugal, appointed by the EU NetworkNature. With more than 60 applied research projects implemented, his work embodies a strong vision of “Science for the Market” and is widely recognized in the fields of design and innovation facilitation. He is a frequent national and international speaker on design, creativity, circularity, biodesign, and nature-based solutions.

Gabriel Patrocínio is an associate professor of Design (2019-), co-director of the Master’s in Design for Circular Economy, and researcher at ISMAT–Lusófona Group (Portugal), and integrated senior researcher at CIAUD–Research Center in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design, FAUL–COFAC; adjunct professor at UERJ, the (Brazil, 1993-); and former director of ESDI/UERJ School of Design.Gabriel Patrocínio has done Ph.D. in Design Policies from Cranfield University, UK (2013).Gabriel Patrocínio is a co-publisher/author of Design and Development: Leveraging Social and Economic Growth through Design Policies (Blucher, 2019). Gabriel Patrocínio is an author of Design Policies and Intellectual Property: Demands for a New Era (Sebrae, 2018).

Susana Leonor is a professor at ISMAT–Lusófona Group where she directs the Bachelor’s in Communication Design and Creative Technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Design from the University of Aveiro (2016) and her research focuses on participatory processes, co-design, and pedagogical innovation. She has coordinated and participated in several European projects, including COCOON, EURIDICE, CECAM, and BiomaterialKIT, and in Horizon 2020 projects URBiNAT and Co-Create, where she led tasks on participatory design and co-creation. Her main research interests include speculative and critical design, biodesign, and sustainable futures.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 living therapeutic skin design opportunities and challenges of on skin living artefacts.-Chapter 2 biodesign in textile innovation emerging applications of bacterial cellulose to fashion.-Chapter 3 lucid life | marama ora.-Chapter4 designing customizable malleability and padding in fungal textiles.- Chapter5 building by growing with textile logic speculative morphologies of biohybrid textile architecture.-Chapter6 Celium technology for kids.-Chapter7 repurposing marine waste: a circular design approach.-Chapter8 Be circular the push of the city.-Chapter9 Co-design as an enabling method in systemic design methodology for circular and sustainable ecosystem.-Chapter10 In search of wool rethinking the future of materials and craft communities.-Chapter11 a theory of speculation do speculative futures really relate to the future.-Chapter12 pillars of ontological biophilic design.-Chapter 13 from green spaces to healthier cities community-driven nature based solutions.-Chapter14 r.es.p.i.r.a co-design and implementation of climate-regulating urban furnitur.-Chapter15 production of microbial bricks for ecological architectural restoration in rural areas through community engagement.-Chapter16 bridging biomimetic design and environmental analysis in architecture.-Chapter17- positioning craft and design practice(s) within reduction nature-based design.-Chapter 18 circular diversification and design: the contribution of the design discipline and practice to identify new production opportunities and create a closed loop system.-Chapter19 circular network of textiles biomaterials green strategies for future design practices.-Chapter20 next skills for circular design profiles: bio-based innovation towards climate-neutral cities.-Chapter21 materials design trends fostering environmental sustainability.-Chapter22 a different kind of growth challenges and opportunities of mycelium for product design.