Abstract
The Master in Eco-Social Design at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is a practice-oriented, transdisciplinary program exploring how design can contribute to more resilient, solidarity-oriented, and just futures. Towards this end the master collaborates with numerous citizen-led organisations, social cooperatives and other everyday "change agents". Despite power being always at stake in such co-design projects, talking about it remains complex. Designers often lack the language to address competing interests and power dynamics in design processes. Drawing from how power has been discussed in participatory design and from the findings emerged from a research project exploring collaboration in social design education at the master, the paper articulates a "Power Lexicon". The aim of the lexicon is to provide design students, researchers and partners with grounded terms which can be employed to explicitly discuss and negotiate power dynamics in community-based design processes.