Resensing Visions: A Convivial Approach to Future-Making from a Global South Context in Hermosillo, Mexico

Visioning—the act of imagining futures—plays a crucial role in design, projecting possibilities, desires, and intentional directions into the future. Yet visioning methods face significant limitations, especially in Global South settings. These include the challenge of asking individuals in life-threatening contexts to imagine ideal scenarios, and the persuasive force of innovations from Global North contexts, which reflect ontological and temporal linearity. To address these limitations, this article focuses on the future-making experiences of women and plants in public spaces in Hermosillo, Mexico. In this city, women and plants are excluded from public spaces by design. In response, women formed collective embroidery circles. As a culturally situated practice, embroidery loosens the constraints of linearity through embodied reflexivity and cyclical temporality. In these circles, women reflected on their relationships with plants and the local ecosystem; rather than relying on long-term visioning, they made futures through tactile and affective embodied encounters with the public space. The article introduces conviviality as an approach for future-making, emphasizing people’s capacity to transform their lives through relational, affective, and material practices. The findings cover three themes: re-existence of memories and recognition of possibilities; how women-plant entanglements reveal the value of those relations; and the convivial reappropriation of the public space through embroidery and design. By foregrounding affect, embodiment, and cyclical temporality, this work contributes to emerging conversations in design and organizational theory about how futures are imagined, enacted, and made available through transformative acts in the here and now. • Mainstream visioning practices—the act of imagining futures—face significant limitations, especially in Global South contexts, where the reliance on ideal scenarios often reinforces power asymmetries and reflects ontological and temporal linearity. • Conviviality is presented as an approach for future-making, emphasizing self-determination through relational, affective, and material practices. • Embroidery, as a culturally situated practice, loosens the constraints of linearity through embodied reflexivity. • The research offers insights into relational, embodied, and situated ways of making futures from a Global South context. • The implications for future-making include the pluralization of affect, the incorporation of cyclical temporality through re-existence, and the importance of making futures palpable—accessible through sensory, affective, and spatial practices.