Abstract
This paper grapples with complicities of decolonising as we attempt to unsettle Dominant conventions in Design, which ossify through repetition, such as reoccurring conferences. Such conventions are troubled through questions around labour, privilege and ethics of being present and situated when we come together to share our practices on unceded Indigenous lands. The paper is co-authored by hosts of a conference that leveraged the organising mechanisms to surface implicit agendas, interrogate normalised approaches and confront tensions and paradoxes of decolonising our own practices. Instead of obeying disciplinary expectations to propose methodologies or 'alternative' conference engagements, we reflexively share unsettling complicities in responding to a penetrating question by an Indigenous Elder, 'why are you here and what is your purpose?' Rather than discussing decolonising through arms-length theory, we share our endeavours through practice and ontologies of our feeling-thinking (sentipensar), to offer learnings and thoughts towards what is yet still to do.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | PDC 2022 - Embracing Cosmologies |
Subtitle of host publication | Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference |
Editors | Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Joyce Yee, Gronvall Erik, Raquel Noronha, Andrea Botero, Chiara Del Gaudio, Yoko Akama, Rachel Clarke, John Vines |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 26-35 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450393881 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 19 Aug 2022 |
Event | Participatory Design Conference 2022: Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design - Virtual, Online, United Kingdom Duration: 19 Aug 2022 → 1 Sept 2022 Conference number: 17th |
Publication series
Name | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series |
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Volume | 1 |
Conference
Conference | Participatory Design Conference 2022 |
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Abbreviated title | PDC 2022 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 19/08/22 → 1/09/22 |
Keywords
- decolonising
- Indigenous
- labour
- ontology
- positionality
- reflexivity