Decolonizing Design Practices: Towards Pluriversality

TY - GEN

T1 - Decolonizing Design Practices: Towards Pluriversality

AU - Smith, Rachel Charlotte

AU - Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike

AU - Loi, Daria

AU - Abreu de Paula, Rogerio

AU - Kambunga, Asnath Paula

AU - Samuel, Marly Muudeni

AU - Zaman, Tariq

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Decolonizing discourses teach us that we need to move away from the universalizing g€grand narratives' of knowledge production and focus on contextualizing diverse and situated experiences, epistemologies and narratives. Yet, few contributions actively demonstrate what a shift to decolonizing design means in practice. Participatory Design (PD) approaches are particularly well-suited to contributing to contemporary debates of decolonization in design due to PD's long-standing political traditions and values of equality and empowerment, but even here empirical methods and techniques to fully realize pluriversality in design are lacking. In line with the CHI 2021 theme of Making Waves. Combining Strengths, this interactive workshop will invigorate the debates and practices in HCI of decolonization by bringing together and demonstrating how designers and researchers in diverse global contexts are working with and adapting modes, concepts, methodologies and sensibilities into decolonizing design practices. Not only will this workshop provide new ways of thinking in HCI but also fuse theories and practices to develop truly transcultural approaches to HCI.

AB - Decolonizing discourses teach us that we need to move away from the universalizing g€grand narratives' of knowledge production and focus on contextualizing diverse and situated experiences, epistemologies and narratives. Yet, few contributions actively demonstrate what a shift to decolonizing design means in practice. Participatory Design (PD) approaches are particularly well-suited to contributing to contemporary debates of decolonization in design due to PD's long-standing political traditions and values of equality and empowerment, but even here empirical methods and techniques to fully realize pluriversality in design are lacking. In line with the CHI 2021 theme of Making Waves. Combining Strengths, this interactive workshop will invigorate the debates and practices in HCI of decolonization by bringing together and demonstrating how designers and researchers in diverse global contexts are working with and adapting modes, concepts, methodologies and sensibilities into decolonizing design practices. Not only will this workshop provide new ways of thinking in HCI but also fuse theories and practices to develop truly transcultural approaches to HCI.

KW - decoloniality

KW - pluriversal

KW - transcultural

KW - participatory design

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105784118&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3411763.3441334

DO - 10.1145/3411763.3441334

M3 - Article in proceedings

BT - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021

A2 - Kitamura, Yoshifumi

A2 - Quigley, Aaron

A2 - Isbister, Katherine

A2 - Igarashi, Takeo

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York

T2 - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Y2 - 8 May 2021 through 13 May 2021

ER -