Abstract
This workshop explores relationality in design education, particularly in the context of design practices that address social justice and climate change. It seeks to create a space for design educators to share and exchange practical approaches for integrating relational pedagogies frameworks into design education and embodying its principles in their teaching practices. Referring to theories on Relational Pedagogies, the workshop will address the dual meaning of “matter” – who matters and what matters – in design education. Drawing from their own experiences and imaginations, participants will be involved in mapping the bodies, objects, spaces, materialities and other non-human bodies and things that should be considered in relational design pedagogies and how to do so. The outcome will be a compilation of mapped approaches for relational design pedagogies which design educators can use in their own teaching practice and institutions. Ultimately, the workshop seeks to empower and emancipate design educators in the face of current socio-political and ecological challenges, offering a space for mutual exchange and collective reflection on how relationality can be concretely integrated in design education.