Crafting spaces between Design and Futures: An analysis of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform

Written as a design studies inquiry, this article employs a futures studies technique – namely causal layered analysis (CLA) – to further examine a design practice case study. CLA is used as a lens through which to analyse the ideologies and worldviews embodied in the ‘design future’ postulated by the ‘Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform’ by DK Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas in Accra, Ghana. Preliminary ideas regarding a fuller exchange between the disciplines of futures studies and design studies are suggested.