Pluriversal Design Pledge Form

Commit to Pluriversal Design with This Pledge Form

The Pluriversal Design Pledge Form is a purpose-built commitment tool for designers, researchers, educators, and creative practitioners who recognize that design must move beyond Western-dominated paradigms to embrace multiple worldviews, ontologies, and ways of knowing.

This form template enables organizations and collectives to gather meaningful commitments from individuals pledging to integrate pluriversal principles into their practice—acknowledging that there are many worlds within our world, each with valid epistemologies and design approaches.

Why Pluriversal Design Matters

Traditional design education and practice have been largely shaped by Western, colonial frameworks that privilege certain ways of thinking, creating, and problem-solving. Pluriversal design challenges this hegemony by:

• Recognizing ontological diversity: Accepting that different cultures and communities have fundamentally different understandings of reality, relationships, and what constitutes "good design"
• Resisting epistemological violence: Refusing to impose singular "universal" design solutions that erase local knowledge systems
• Centering marginalized voices: Amplifying Indigenous, Global South, and historically excluded perspectives in design processes
• Fostering relational approaches: Moving beyond extractive research methods toward reciprocal, long-term community engagement

How This Template Supports Your Movement

This Pluriversal Design Pledge Form helps you:

• Gather meaningful commitments from practitioners across disciplines—from UX designers and architects to educators and researchers
• Build a directory of pledge-takers who can form a network of accountability and mutual support
• Articulate specific actions signatories will take to operationalize pluriversal principles in their work
• Create visibility for the movement through shared commitments and public declarations
• Foster reflection through questions that prompt deep thinking about positionality, power, and practice

Built with Paperform's flexible editor, you can customize this template to match your collective's visual identity, add conditional logic to tailor follow-up questions based on practice areas, and integrate with tools like Airtable or Google Sheets to manage your growing community of signatories.

For organizations running broader campaigns, Stepper can automate follow-up workflows—sending welcome emails to new pledge-takers, adding them to community newsletters, or triggering milestone check-ins to support ongoing accountability.

Whether you're an academic institution fostering decolonial design pedagogy, a design collective building alternatives to extractive capitalism, or a network of practitioners committed to systemic change, this form provides the foundation for meaningful, documented commitments to pluriversal futures.