This is a unique design-led project using dilemma as a design principle to create a people-led and people-driven actionable toolkit for the members and colleagues of European Union National Institutes for Culture. The team at D.epicentre with Sudebi’s creative and conceptual direction and facilitation designed and implemented a participatory, inclusive and iterative process engaging with relevant stakeholders from different geographies and realities both inside and outside Europe, using non-verbal and metaphorical modes of conversation to interpret and articulate their perspectives. 

This action-research project was to design intervention which would make a rather intangible idea or concept of fairness, which is interpreted and manifested in different ways in different contexts and situations, into actionable implementable choices. 

Contrary to the common misconception in the world of international cultural relations of ‘design’ as a static outcome making the toolkit look pretty and attractive after the content is written, our idea of using design has been to question, challenge and shift the very foundation of the work and use design as a dynamic glue, a binder, an inter-connector at every part of the process where dilemmas as opposed to problems were used as design principles.  

Designer:

Sudebi Thakurata

D.epicentre

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