Stitching Temporalities: Tending to futures through thread and touch

from Feminist Technoscience in Practice: Digital Counter Mapping recorded on May 22, 2025With guest Marysol Ortega Pallanezç, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University Visioning — the act of imagining futures — is crucial to design, yet dominant approaches often rely on fast, linear notions of time that limit what futures become possible. This lecture explores how the synergy between embroidery and design, as time-variant and material practices, offers an alternative mode of visioning, one that embraces layered, relational, and non-linear temporalities. By engaging with these plural timescapes, designers can contribute to a rebraiding of these temporalities — including and questioning dominant narratives of progress — to more intertwined futures. This approach invites a shift toward future-making that is embodied, affective, and attentive to ongoing change.