Future Taonga: Creating inclusive futures by design
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In a project with Te Atiawa – a Māori tribe in New Zealand – we combined tools from futures and design thinking with Tikanga Māori (loosely translated as the Māori ‘way of doing things’), empowering rangatahi (Māori youth) to express their ideas and images of the future. Through this work, we have learned about designing for inclusion, and the advantages of combining complementary methods with indigenous perspectives to unlock culturally empowering ideas. We have also experienced how Tikanga Māori has improved our design practice and inspired us to think more holistically. This talk was delivered as part of the 2019 International Design Conference in Chicago, organised by the IDSA. You can watch the video of the presentation by following this link https://vimeo.com/366302439
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- 1. Future Taonga Creating inclusive futures by design IDC Presentation 23 August 2019 CHRIS JACKSON Founder + Director We Create Futures www.wecreatefutures.com Instagram: wecreatefutures Twitter: futureswecreate
- 3. My belief We need to move beyond human-centred design and design thinking to tackle increasingly complex problems...
- 4. ...and be more inclusive, build agency and advance people in creating their own preferred futures. My belief
- 5. We are a design-driven, strategic foresight and innovation practice, based in Wellington, New Zealand and connected globally.
- 6. We work at the overlaps FUTURES + FORESIGHT INSIGHT + RESEARCH DESIGN + INNOVATION STRATEGY + COMPLEXITY
- 8. Taonga Taonga is a Māori word used to describe a cultural treasure. This could be art, a place, an object, a language, etc. Māori Indigenous people of Aotearoa, New Zealand
- 9. Aotearoa, New Zealand Land mass: Similar to UK Population: 4,970,510 (Similar to Alabama) Official Languages: English, Te Reo Māori, Sign Language
- 10. Aotearoa, New Zealand Land mass: Similar to UK Population: 4,970,510 (Similar to Alabama) Official Languages: English, Te Reo Māori, Sign Language It’s not an island off, or state of Australia.
- 11. Taranaki We have been working in Taranaki for 3+ years, building co-design capability and skills.New Plymouth Wellington
- 12. Iwi Māori tribe Rangatahi Young people The Brief Use design thinking to understand the future of leadership for the rangatahi of Te Atiawa iwi.
- 13. Hands up if you have ever facilitated or taken part in a design thinking workshop
- 14. AppPlatform Community Garden THE HOLY TRINITY OF DESIGN THINKING
- 15. Can limit creativity, engagement and personal agency Imported, colonising model Perpetuates the status quo, especially in a capitalist context Challenges
- 17. Our Approach TIKANGA MĀORI Cultural context FUTURES + FORESIGHT Exploring multiple futures CODESIGN Generative research and fostering personal agency DESIGNERLY PRACTICE Creativity, Making, Iteration
- 18. DESIGN THINKING EMPATHY ABDUCTIVE PROBLEM–SOLUTION FRAMING INTUITIVE OPTIMISTIC FUZZY FRONT END WICKED PROBLEMS ETHNOGRAPHIC INVENTIVE AND INNOVATIVE HUMAN-CENTERED VISUALISATION PROTOTYPING SYSTEMIC THINKING COLLABORATIVE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ITERATIVE STEPH DI RUSSO Understanding Design Thinking in Complex Environments FUTURES THINKING PROVOCATIONS IMAGINATIVE FRAMING ALTERNATIVES INTUITIVE PESSIMISTIC > OPTIMISTIC WEAK SIGNALS PREFERRED FUTURES ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOVEL AND CHALLENGING LIFE-CENTRED ENVISIONING POSTULATING SYSTEMIC THINKING COLLABORATIVE ANTI-DISCIPLINARY CYCLICAL
- 19. PRESENT Possible FUTURES Probable Plausible Possible Plausible Futures Taxonomy Stuart Candy, adapted from Hancock and Bezhold, 1994 Probable
- 20. PRESENT Possible FUTURES Probable Plausible Possible Plausible Futures Taxonomy Stuart Candy, adapted from Hancock and Bezhold, 1994 Probable PREFERRED
- 22. Tools + Approach
- 23. The Polak Game PETER HAYWARD / STUART CANDY
- 24. The Polak Game Diagram: Superflux I feel optimistic but don’t know what I can do I feel optimistic and can influence change I feel pessimistic and I don’t know what I can do I feel pessimistic but think I could make a difference Optimism Pessimism Low Agency High Agency
- 25. Jim Dator What Future Studies is, and is not, 1994 “Futures studies does not - or should not - pretend to predict “the future.” It studies ideas about the future - what I usually call “images of the future” – which each individual (and group) has (often holding several conflicting images at one time).”
- 27. ForesightNZ Playing Cards McGUINNESS INSTITUTE
- 28. 2050 Scenarios TE REO MĀORI, CLIMATE, GAMING, EDUCATION
- 29. Climate Scenario > Fish Stocks decrease > Tensions between capitalism and environmentalism increase > Meat and milk grown in labs approved for human consumption > Global drought causes food crisis > Entire West Antarctic ice shelf collapses
- 30. “Any useful idea about the futures should at first appear to be ridiculous. Jim Dator Dator’s Second Law of Futures Studies
- 31. Te Reo Māori Scenario > Corporate influence on government policy increase > Tensions between iwi and The Crown (government) increase > Te Reo Māori becomes compulsory in schools > NZ becomes an Australian state > Terrorists target NZ parliament causing significant damage
- 32. Mana Economics 5 CAPITALS, IWI VALUES
- 33. Future Leader Persona QUALITIES OF A FUTURE LEADER
- 34. Sunflowers cure Cancer FUTURE TAONGA
- 35. Energy from toxic fish FUTURE TAONGA
- 36. United Nations of Indigenous Peoples FUTURE TAONGA
- 37. What we learned
- 38. Importance of cultural framing A DECOLONISING APPROACH
- 39. Tikanga Tikanga of Te Atiawa > Pono Acting with honesty and Integrity > Manaaki Enhancing the mana of others > Kaitiaki Being good guardians > Pūmau Inspiring unity and Commitment Tikanga Māori “way of doing things” Mana a supernatural force in a person, place or object
- 40. Don’t overcomplicate things JARGON, TOOLS, SCENARIOS
- 41. More creative ideas BREAKING FREE OF ASSUMPTIONS
- 42. The importance of making ENABLING DIFFERENT WAYS TO ENGAGE
- 43. Building bridges FOR PEOPLE TO ESCAPE THE PRESENT
- 44. Concepts of time TIME BENDS TO THE WORK VS WORK BENDS TO THE TIME
- 45. Why does this matter?
- 46. Chicago
- 47. Chicago The city’s name comes from the Algonquian people, who called the river on which it sits “Checagou” after the stinky wild leeks that grew along its shore.
- 48. We become the knowledge that we privilege
- 49. Col. John Boyd OODA LOOP “A scheme of pulling things apart (analysis) and putting them back together (synthesis) in new combinations to find how apparently unrelated ideas and actions can be related to one another.
- 50. At its most potent, design challenges the status quo imagines new systems, creates agency and empowers people.
- 51. Danah Abdulla DECOLONIZE DESIGN “[Design today] does not disrupt the status quo, it does not disorder the established order. Decoloniality is about reimagining something beyond the current system we exist in.
- 52. CTA
- 53. Toni Morrison 2003 “I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
- 54. You have all been brilliantly trained...
- 55. ...you all have power...
- 56. ...in your next project, empower somebody else.
- 57. Kia ora and thank you for listening www.wecreatefutures.com Instagram: wecreatefutures Twitter: futureswecreate
- 58. ABOUT US Whakatuaki “Titiro whakamuri haere whakamua I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past Whaktauki Māori proverb