Milan / July 2025 / solo project
Amid growing academic recognition of non-human agency and decolonial practices, my MC thesis proposes the feminist ethics of care as guiding framework aligned with this shift, an ethics still not fully comprehended within design.
In this regard, I identified Permaculture—a grassroots eco-design movement—as a resource. Since the 1970s, it has based its practice on care ethics and has developed 12 Design Principles that translate it in actionable design terms.
Yet, due to its grassroots origins and it’s not fully scientific grounding, Permaculture remains marginal. The challenge for me than is: how I could present it and make it accessible for designers with an academic background?
1/5 A pocket guide
Designing Towards the Permanent Culture is a pocket guide based on Permaculture principles. Meant to be a reflective tool, helping designers embody and practice the ethics of care through their design actions.
2/5 A set of cards
The principles are re-organised into cards, translating Permaculture theory into a visual and accessible language tailored to designers, making complex concepts clearer, easy to use and consult.
3/5 Rhyme+graphic
To introduce the principles specifics, the original cover statement and icon was reinterpreted into a rhyme, which express how the ethics of care is interpreted, accompanied by a graphical representation
