Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

Thingiverse is an open-source platform for sharing primarily free design files for objects to be produced on 3D printers,

Reknit Revolution offers technical advice, organizes workshops, exhibits striking new creations from the process of reknitting, but most of all encourages others to take up the challenge of doing it themselves.

“teaches people how to fix almost anything. Anyone can create a repair manual for a device, and anyone can also edit the existing set of manuals to improve them.”

iFixit is a wiki-based site that

Design for systems change: This strategy covers the whole spectrum of value creation for both biological and technical cycles and refers to design thinking in complex systems as a whole and between its parts to target problems and find innovative solutions.81

Out of disparate scholarship and studies, scholars in the United Kingdom have identified five core strategies for circular design:

“If something is not designed in accordance with circular economy principles, it is not professional, responsible design—it is malpractice.”

Importantly, this shift to a circular economy is not about reducing the negative impacts of a linear economy based on the production and disposal of goods but about implementing an entire systemic shift that “builds long-term resilience, generates business and economic opportunities, and provides environmental and societal benefits.”

Afrofuturism as “an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation.”