The Entanglists

This is our first episode on our Conversation Series! Welcome!

The department of design at Linnaeus University, in Sweden, operates under the concept of “Plus Change”, which names our programs, for example, Design+Change and Visual Communication + Change. But way more than naming our courses, “+Change” guides what we do, and how we do it. We understand that design and communication shape the world around us, and we are very aware of the state of collapse this world is at the moment. So, when we speak of +Change, we are talking about directing ourselves to regenerated futures; we are speaking of a transitional movement supported by ecological justice, inclusion, artistic expression, material traditions, and relationality. In three international programs, we practice future building while respecting our past, our diverse cultures and territories.

To tell us a bit more about this concept and how it is practised at LNU, we gathered in our conversation three amazing designers, researchers and educators from the Design Department. Meet Mathilda Tham, Kristoffer Gansing and Petra Lilja.

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Relevant links of this episode:

Design+Change: https://www.lnu.se/program/design-change/vaxjo-engelska-ht/

Visual Communication + Change: https://www.lnu.se/program/visual-communication-change/vaxjo-engelska-ht/2026/

Relational Design + change: https://www.lnu.se/program/relationell-design-change-masterprogram/vaxjo-engelska-ht/

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This is our special Events Series where we tell you a bit about the design conferences that we attend happening around the world. This is our way of sharing a bit of our experience with you, and making the events more accessible to a wider audience.

The conference of the day is Learnings/Unlearnings, which took place in London between the 3rd and the 5th of September 2026, at the London School of Architecture.

Coral Michelin was at the conference and tells Juliana Restrepo-Giraldo the highlights of the experience and presentations.

Some relevant links of this episode:

• 2026 Conference website: https://caravanize.nu/learnings-unlearnings-2026/call-for-abstracts/
• Book of abstracts: https://caravanize.nu/static/files/2026_book-of-abstracts-lul-2.pdf

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Hello and welcome to the Entanglists. This is our special Events Series where we tell you a bit about the design conferences that we attend happening around the world. This is our way of sharing a bit of our experience with you, and making the events more accessible to a wider audience.

Today we will be talking about the Participatory Design Conference (PDC2026), which took place between the 16th and 19th of June 2026, at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy.

The conferences have been held every two years since 1990 and have formed an important place for the discussion of the collaborative, social, and political dimensions of participatory design.

Coral Michelin was at the conference and tells Juliana Restrepo-Giraldo the highlights of the experience and presentations.

Some relevant links of this episode:

• The 2026 conference website: https://www.pdc2026.polimi.it/
• The proceedings of the event: https://dl.acm.org/conference/pdc
• https://www.pdc2026.polimi.it/event/access-the-full-and-exploratory-papers/

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This is our special Events Series where we tell you a bit about the design conferences that we attend happening around the world. This is our way of sharing a bit of our experience with you, and making the events more accessible to a wider audience.

In this episode we will talk about the Design Research Society Conference (DRS2026), that happened between the 8th and 12th of June 2026, at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland.

Coral Michelin was at the conference and tells Juliana Restrepo-Giraldo the highlights of the experience and presentations.

Some relevant links of this episode:

• For those who what to know more of DRS, their Special interest groups, and the proceedings: www.designresearchsociety.org
• To see the full programe of DRS2026: https://www.conftool.pro/drs2026/sessions.php
• Conversation of Silvana Juri1, Marysol Ortega Pallanez and Donna Maione: https://www.conftool.pro/drs2026/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-06-08&form_session=397&presentations=show#paperID3043
• Conversation Pluriversal Design Research for Equitable Transcultural Collaborations: https://www.conftool.pro/drs2026/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-06-08&form_session=401&presentations=show#paperID3264

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This is our special Events Series where we tell you a bit about the design conferences that we attend happening around the world. This is our way of sharing a bit of our experience with you, and making the events more accessible to a wider audience.

The conference of the day is Cumulus Conference with the theme Roots | Routes in Design, which took place in Athens between the 5th and 9th of May 2026.

Juliana Restrepo-Giraldo went to the event and tells Coral Michelin the highlights of what she has seen.

Some relevant links of this episode:

• Cumulus Roots | Routes in Design: https://cumulusathens2026.uniwa.gr/
• Cumulus Association: https://cumulusassociation.org/

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Hello, and welcome to The Entanglists, a podcast made by two latin-americans in the Design Department of Linnaeus University.

The episode explains what is the concept and idea behind The Entanglists, and is presented by Coral Michelin and Juliana restrepo-Giraldo..

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Below is our Manifesto:

We are Entanglists from the Global South living in the Global North. To be an entanglist means to be a connector between diverse perspectives and matters, tangible or intangible. Entanglists seek to recognize relations around them in order to create, facilitate and host gatherings where different threads (themes, topics, interests), roots (backgrounds, traditions, knowledges), and ideas (methods, visions, understandings) can be connected and mixed to generate new imaginaries, relationships and collaborations.

We are continuously exploring this skill through different projects and formats. This podcast is one of the ways in which we envision creating spaces for entanglements which are accessible and open to diversity and emergence. Our research projects, our teaching, and our community of practice are other forms of exploring what is to become entangled with the world around us while walking towards regenerated futures.

These different initiatives are based on a set of shared values that we use to foster meeting spaces of dialogue, learning, and exchange from within and beyond design and academia.

• Decolonial: We recognise, value and are committed to inviting diverse voices that represent different ways of knowing and different practices.
• Relational: We aim to explore and show interconnections to challenge dichotomies and categorizations. Also, through our work, to build respectful relationships with ourselves, places, and living beings.
• Positionality: Our identities and relationships with ourselves and others are dynamic and change in connection to contexts. We aim to acknowledge how different positionings are always subject to power dynamics and how this can help us to build more respectful and ethical relationships.

Other values we hold: Curiosity; Transdisciplinarity; Intersectionality; Vulnerability.

We are a platform of/for people changing the world through and beyond design.