<P><EM>Participatory Design and Social Transformation</EM> introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment.</P><P>Participatory artistic- and design-based research encounters ¿ being, making, and learning with people, things, and situations ¿ are explored through practices that utilize image-oriented and cinematic narratives. Collaborative alliances are invited to consider aesthetics, visuality, attunement, reflection, reciprocity, and care as a means for transdisciplinary approaches that foster generative and ethically responsible conditions toward collective liberation. The design of spectacles is proposed as a way for collective movements to affectively contribute to positive systemic changes from the ground up. In this way, <I>Participatory Design and Social Transformation</I> bridges contemporary advances in design theory and practice with media and art t