Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures
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Decolonial design practices : Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures. / Kambunga, Asnath Paula; Smith, Rachel Charlotte; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Otto, Ton.
I: Design Studies, Bind 86, 101170, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Decolonial design practices
T2 - Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures
AU - Kambunga, Asnath Paula
AU - Smith, Rachel Charlotte
AU - Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike
AU - Otto, Ton
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article introduces the concept of the ‘safe space’ in design interventions: a socially developed environment for thoughts, actions, and mutual learning in political and contested contexts. The safe space responds to current challenges within decolonial design practices and calls for a plurality of knowledge and voices. We present a study in which we developed safe spaces with young Namibians by combining core elements of design anthropology and community-based participatory design through interventions, dialogic engagements, and co-design. We demonstrate how the intentional design practice of a safe space enables new ways of working in a contested context. The article presents a framework for designing and developing safe spaces, focusing on working with multiple temporalities and the social production of spaces.
AB - This article introduces the concept of the ‘safe space’ in design interventions: a socially developed environment for thoughts, actions, and mutual learning in political and contested contexts. The safe space responds to current challenges within decolonial design practices and calls for a plurality of knowledge and voices. We present a study in which we developed safe spaces with young Namibians by combining core elements of design anthropology and community-based participatory design through interventions, dialogic engagements, and co-design. We demonstrate how the intentional design practice of a safe space enables new ways of working in a contested context. The article presents a framework for designing and developing safe spaces, focusing on working with multiple temporalities and the social production of spaces.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Decolonial design
KW - Participatory design
KW - Design anthropology
KW - Design practice
KW - research methods
U2 - 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101170
DO - 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101170
M3 - Journal article
VL - 86
JO - Design Studies
JF - Design Studies
SN - 0142-694X
M1 - 101170
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ID: 375142624