Abstract
Social change is experienced profoundly by adult youth in India, especially in cities like Delhi with large rural migrant populations. This youth is a generation in transition, with aspirations and experiences that are different from their communities of origin. However, their perceptions of their world have rarely been documented qualitatively, in their own voice. My doctoral research, titled Transilience, which means ‘to leap across’, is a practice-based reflection on my work as a social designer within this milieu, and specifically focuses on how adult youth perceive themselves and their context, to explore ways to reframe the way social design practitioners mediate participatory engagements with youth. This paper represents an integral part of the research; conversations with adult youth in the urban slums of Delhi, conducted across two continents in the disruption of the pandemic, causing methodological shifts that enhanced and revealed the research in surprising ways.
Keywords
phenomenology, assemblage, youth, transformation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.356
Citation
Roy, R. (2022) Transilience: Assemblage and relationality in a complex urban setting, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.356
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Social change is experienced profoundly by adult youth in India, especially in cities like Delhi with large rural migrant populations. This youth is a generation in transition, with aspirations and experiences that are different from their communities of origin. However, their perceptions of their world have rarely been documented qualitatively, in their own voice. My doctoral research, titled Transilience, which means ‘to leap across’, is a practice-based reflection on my work as a social designer within this milieu, and specifically focuses on how adult youth perceive themselves and their context, to explore ways to reframe the way social design practitioners mediate participatory engagements with youth. This paper represents an integral part of the research; conversations with adult youth in the urban slums of Delhi, conducted across two continents in the disruption of the pandemic, causing methodological shifts that enhanced and revealed the research in surprising ways.