This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems.

Satu Miettinen is a dean and professor in service design at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, Finland.

Enni Mikkonen is a postdoctoral researcher in social work at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos is a professor of design at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Melanie Sarantou is an adjunct professor in social design at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Preface- Andrea W. Mignolo and Walter D. Mignolo

Foreword: The European Commission policy for promoting arts to tackle societal challenges and increase cohesion and inclusion- Christina Sarvani and Jarkko Siren

1. Introduction: Artistic cartographies and design explorations towards the pluriverse - Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos and Melanie Sarantou

Section I: Pluriversal A/r/tographies

2. Record of a multispecies creative exploration in the austral forests - Mariluz Soto Hormazábal and Mauricio Tolosa
   

3. Dialogues for plurality-art-based exchange for strengthening youth's role as agents of change - Katri Konttinen, Enni Mikkonen & Mikko Ylisuvanto

4. Multiperspective take on pluriversal agenda in artistic research - Marija Griniuk, Daria Akimenko, Satu Miettinen, Heidi Pietarinen and Melanie Sarantou

5. A critical retrospective on whiteness in Possible Worlds video artwork - Mari Mäkiranta and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä

6. New genre Arctic art in the city of Rovaniemi: Promotion of de-Arctification and pluralism - Maria Huhmarniemi and Mirja Hiltunen
   
7. Expanding design narratives through handmade embroidery production: A dialogue with a community of women in Passira, Pernambuco, Brazil - Ana Julia Melo Almeida and Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
   
8. Afrikana-burying colonial bones to harvest seeds and bouquets of plurality - Michelle Olga van Wyk

Section II: Design explorations towards the pluriverse

9. Excluding by design - Peter West
   
10. Knowledge plurality for greater university-community permeability: Experiences in art and design from fieldwork - Caoimhe Isha Beaulé, Élisabeth Kaine, Étienne Levac, Anne Marchand and Jean-François Vachon
    
11. Other worlds are possible: Advanced computational and design thinking in South Auckland - Ricardo Sosa
    
12. Pluriverse perspectives in designing for a cultural heritage context in the digital age - Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen, Mari Suoheimo and Maija Mäkikalli
    
13. Centring relationships more than humans and things: Translating design through the culture of the Far East - Namkyu Chun
    
14. Professionalised designing in between plural makings - Zhipeng Duan
    
15. Enacting plurality in designing social innovation: Developing a culturally grounded twenty-first-century leadership programme for a Cambodian context - Joyce Yee, Sovan Srun and Laura Smitheman

Section III The pluriverse of activism, diversity and accessibility

16. A history of design education in Brazil: A decolonial perspective - Júlio César Tamer Okabayashi and Maria Cecília Loschiavo Dos Santos
    
17. Unveiling the layered structures of Youth Work - Ana Nuutinen and Enni Mikkonen
    
18. Making IMPACT: Visibility status in participatory projects - Teresa Torres De Eça and Ângela Saldanha
    
19. Flag: A shared horizon - Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi and Melanie Sarantou
    
20. Ghost bike agency and urban culture through art activism - Eduardo Rumenig, Julio Talhari, Maria Cecilia L. Dos Santos and Luiz E.P.B.T. Dantas
    
21. Mediating social interaction through a chatbot to leverage the diversity of a community: Tensions, paradoxes, and opportunities - Amalia De Götzen, Peter Kun, Luca Simeone, and Nicola Morelli