When Is the Pluriverse?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Currently design is in the midst of several potential upheavals including the postcolonial, decolonial, ontological, and pluriversal turns.This conversation among design educators explores these turns under the inclusive umbrella of pluriversal design by focusing specifically on the temporality of the pluriverse in design education.By engaging in communal sensing, living in a world of many worlds, we relationally engage and question whether pluriversal design is a struggle for emergence, a past history, a possible future, a current reality, some combination, or something else entirely for design education?The reason we find this question important is because it determines what we do today, as design educators across many worlds.If the pluriverse is truly a future experience that we do not have today, we want to know what we need to do today to aid its arrival in design education.We engaged in an asynchronously written conversation in which Victor Udoewa, served as a facilitator and complicator of a conversation between design educators
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.032 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".