Abstract
How is positionality brought into participatory practices? How are moments for self-reflection created in participatory design? How do design researchers challenge colonial perspectives in design? The workshop aims to create a space for a collective reflection on the need to undo the narratives of modernity and the cult of futurity that brings to the ubiquitous discourse on innovation as the only possible path for a better future. The workshop experiments with materiality as a channel to collectively explore how designing – as a transformative action embracing relationality – could adopt a pluriversal mindset. It furthers the discussion on relationality, elucidating elements that help nourish a caring and decolonial standpoint. Through the lenses of interdependency and pluriversal temporalities, it conveys a conversation on rearticulating relationality and pluriversality in co-design that should ultimately end in collective action and mutual commitment.
Keywords
participatory design, politics of care, relationality, decoloniality, co-design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2025.78
Citation
De Rosa, A., Hurtig, M.,and Finardi, M.A.(2025) An exploration on relationality and decoloniality in participatory design based on care, in Brandt, E., Markussen, T., Berglund, E., Julier, G., Linde, P. (eds.), Nordes 2025: Relational Design, 6-8 August, Oslo, Norway. https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2025.78
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An exploration on relationality and decoloniality in participatory design based on care
How is positionality brought into participatory practices? How are moments for self-reflection created in participatory design? How do design researchers challenge colonial perspectives in design? The workshop aims to create a space for a collective reflection on the need to undo the narratives of modernity and the cult of futurity that brings to the ubiquitous discourse on innovation as the only possible path for a better future. The workshop experiments with materiality as a channel to collectively explore how designing – as a transformative action embracing relationality – could adopt a pluriversal mindset. It furthers the discussion on relationality, elucidating elements that help nourish a caring and decolonial standpoint. Through the lenses of interdependency and pluriversal temporalities, it conveys a conversation on rearticulating relationality and pluriversality in co-design that should ultimately end in collective action and mutual commitment.