Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures

This article discusses the possibilities enabled by design ethnography cards which combine images and text to disseminate ethnographic insights and prompt stakeholder ideation in interdisciplinary applied research. In doing so, we draw on the example of a 58 card deck developed to be used in design ethnography workshops in Monash University in Victoria, Australia, within a project which combines design anthropological and transition management approaches to examine new pathways to net zero at the precinct level. This article details how the cards were developed using ethnographic quotes, video stills and photography, with the purpose of bringing ethnographic findings into the workshops, to engage stakeholders in a dialogic and collaborative visioning exercise.