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•Stigmergy•Family•Studio• is an investigation into new conditions shaping design “in the wild”—in particular, the global logistics chain and digital platforms for communication and transaction—through an experimental studio pedagogy. ·S·F·S· takes its name from three different social systems: stigmergy, a type of decentralised, self-organising network; the family business, which is fundamental in rapidly developing markets and in sectors of making and manufacture; and the studio format of design education. ·S·F·S· is interested in observing and working through the variety of flows—visible/invisible, private/public, material/immaterial, mainstream/marginal, online/offline—that circulate ideas, designs, components, objects, and money through transnational lines of exchange. ·S·F·S· was launched by Martina Muzi in 2017 as part of her research into the production ecosystem of Shenzhen and has developed into a studio course in the Social Design master’s programme at Design Academy Eindhoven. Students, Spring 2018: Yiqian Bao, Valerie Daude, Lauriane Heim, Ed Lewis, Lukas Adrian Jurk, Robin Weidner, Marylou Petot, Marianne Drews, Mathew Dominic, Indre Srebaliūtė.