Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): Between two worlds: A Southern perspective of design practice

Between Two Worlds: A Southern Perspective on Design Practice is the third issue of the LINK PRAXIS Journal of Practice-led Research and the Global South. This issue presents a selection of extended articles developed from contributions to the LINK 2024 conference, held across locations in South America. It is dedicated to epistemologies emerging from the Global South and reflects the diverse and situated knowledge practices that inform design-led inquiry within this context. Foregrounding practice as a mode of research, this issue brings together scholars and practitioners who critically engage with questions of positionality, relationality, and decolonial methodologies. The contributions in this volume offer grounded reflections on the conditions, challenges, and potentials of design as it is practised and theorised from southern perspectives — often situated between worlds, across borders, and through multiple ontological frameworks.