Design for/by “The Global South”

Prototyping a Micro-pluriverse: Performed Cosmologies to Decolonize Augmented Reality

“…Enforcing asymmetry in power between the colonizer and the colonized (Schultz, 2018) 5. Dominating the imagination (Fry, 2017) To look at the ways colonialism is perpetuated in AR, we must first consider the epistemic roots of AR. Before becoming a consumer technology, AR was developed in the late 1960s by the American militaryindustrial complex as part of a quest to "augment" vision, as a "heads up display" for fighter pilots (Kipper & Rampolla, 2013).…”

Disentangling participatory ICT design in socioeconomic development

“…On a macro scale this means placing the design project in relation to the political and economic conditions within which it takes place [2,5,24]. Recognising that much PD in development is based in the Global South, projects are embedded within a history of colonialism as well as contemporary economic movements such as globalization and neoliberalism [9,20,41,48]. Postcolonial computing as well as recent calls for a design for/by the Global South provide a starting point for engagement with these larger scale issues [19,20,29,48].…”

Autonomous design and the emergent transnational critical design studies field

“…(ii) The emergence of a transnational space, anchored chiefly but not exclusively in the Global South, that problematizes anew design's embeddedness in global historical relations of power and domination, variously explored in terms of design's relation to histories of colonialism and imperialism, its functioning within the modern/colonial matrix of power, the geopolitics of knowledge (eurocentrism), racism, and patriarchal capitalist colonial modernity. This second feature is attested by novel framings of design praxes, such as those going on under the rubrics of decolonial design (Schultz, 2017;Schultz et al, 2018); designs of, for, by and from the South (Gutiérrez, 2015a(Gutiérrez, , 2015bAnsari, 2016;Fry, 2017b;Escobar, 2017) 2 ; design by other names; the decolonization of design (Tunstall, 2013;Ansari, 2016;Tlostanova, 2017;Vásquez, 2017); indigenous and multicultural design and visual sovereignty 3 ; alter-design (López-Garay and Lopera, 2017); design in the borderlands (Kalantidou and Fry, 2014); and autonomous design (Escobar, 2018). It should be stressed that these trends often overlap; they are diverse and heterogeneous, in some cases even within each trend.…”