I always imagine myself as a kind of ant…. the ant that makes one hole to go on to the other side of this barrier. Once one small hole is made then many other ants will follow.… Design is not just making something but finding this kind of barrier and then making a strategy to tackle it.¹

—Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, “Repair and Care: Roundtable Discussion”

We’re writing at a time when things truly feel intractable: the genocide in Palestine has passed the one-year mark, extreme weather events are part of the daily news cycle and income inequality has reached new heights. More subtly, yet equally impactful, our attention has been mined and weakened, our bodily autonomy has dwindled and the outlets to push against the systems that govern us are diminished. While this moment feels exceptional, it is deeply entwined with longer histories of capitalism and settler colonialism that are fueled by extractivism.

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