Entanglements celebrates the inherent messiness, heterogeneity, and pluralism of design practice. While design is ensnared in many complex and problematic relationships — including complicity with inequitable systems of power, social and environmental injustice, and unsustainable extraction of matter and energy — design has the capacity to weave together many disciplines, realities, and alternative futures. Rejecting the myth of disciplinary autonomy and challenging the ongoing siloing of knowledge that keeps us from tackling these issues head-on, we invite practices that rewild the edges and center of our field and get stuck in the mud and weeds of our world.

The Entanglements series highlights projects that exceed simple categorization, simultaneously operating across multiple temporal and spatial scales and bridging conceptual and technical boundaries. Beyond simply negotiating this landscape, the designers, artists, and architects participating in this series seek to embrace contingency, amplify reciprocity, and create new forms of solidarity and agency through design.