Communalizing participation: Pluriversal co-research and co-design

Communalizing participation: Pluriversal co-research and co-design

This talk develops a particular approach to participation(s) otherwise, based on a two-fold premise: first, that the imperative of selective de-globalization –clearer now than ever with the Convid-19 crisis–, requires not only the re-localization of productive activities but the re-communalization of social life within a relational perspective; second, that to the extent that design has a role in this process, it needs to be based on equally relational (non-dualist, decolonized) approaches to collaborative knowledge production that contributes to the communitizing group's autonomy. Thus recognized, “participation” becomes a problematizing practice at the interface of design and ontological politics.

Arturo Escobar  Colombia / USA

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