Vol. 10 No. 20 (2025): Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter

We propose the special issue Designing with the World: Towards a New Relationship with Matter (Vol 10, issue 20, December 2025) in relation to the exhibition Matter Matters. Designing with the world at Museu del Disseny-DHub ​​which explores our relationship with matter in a context of ecological crisis and overproduction. In a world where anthropogenic mass already exceeds Earth's biomass, design faces an unprecedented responsibility to reimagine its role.

This issue invites to reflection on a design that not only acts "with" the world, but also questions the legacies and the present of colonialism, extractivism and museum representation. Inspired by the ideas of Karen Barad, Timothy Morton and institutional critique, we want to explore a non-binary future for matter, where the nature/culture and human/non-human dualisms dissolve, and materiality is seen as a network of kinship and shared responsibilities.