Response: Design for/by andfrom the ‘global South.’

This paper is intended as a contribution to the development of a framework for design for, by, and from the Global South. After discussing briefly the need for such a framework, the papers outlines the rudiments of a specific subset of this sub-field, drawing on the conceptualization and struggles for autonomy by some Latin American social movements. Key to the conceptualization of this design for autonomy perspective are renewed notions of the communal and relationality, and the growing emphasis on the need for significant cultural and ecological – in some versions, civilizational – transitions between patriarchal capitalist modernity. Design for autonomy and transition design are presented as parallel and interconnected projects for both the South and the North.