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DECOLONIZE DESIGN
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Future Taonga: Creating inclusive futures by design
The document discusses the need to move beyond human-centered design to incorporate inclusive and agency-focused approaches, particularly in the context of Māori culture in New Zealand. It emphasizes co-design, strategic foresight, and the importance of cultural framing while addressing complex societal issues. The presenter advocates for empowering individuals to envision and create their preferred futures through innovative design practices.
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- 1. Future Taonga Creating inclusivefutures by design IDC Presentation 23 August 2019 CHRIS JACKSON Founder + Director We Create Futures www.wecreatefutures.com Instagram: wecreatefutures Twitter: futureswecreate
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- 3. My belief We needto move beyond human-centred design and design thinking to tackle increasingly complex problems...
- 4. ...and be moreinclusive, build agency and advance people in creating their own preferred futures. My belief
- 5. We are adesign-driven, strategic foresight and innovation practice, based in Wellington, New Zealand and connected globally.
- 6. We work at theoverlaps FUTURES + FORESIGHT INSIGHT + RESEARCH DESIGN + INNOVATION STRATEGY + COMPLEXITY
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- 8. Taonga Taonga is aMāori 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 Landmass: Similar to UK Population: 4,970,510 (Similar to Alabama) Official Languages: English, Te Reo Māori, Sign Language
- 10. Aotearoa, New Zealand Landmass: 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 beenworking in Taranaki for 3+ years, building co-design capability and skills.New Plymouth Wellington
- 12. Iwi Māori tribe RangatahiYoung people The Brief Use design thinking to understand the future of leadership for the rangatahi of Te Atiawa iwi.
- 13. Hands up ifyou have ever facilitated or taken part in a design thinking workshop
- 14. AppPlatform Community Garden THE HOLY TRINITYOF DESIGN THINKING
- 15. Can limit creativity,engagement and personal agency Imported, colonising model Perpetuates the status quo, especially in a capitalist context Challenges
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- 17. Our Approach TIKANGA MĀORI Culturalcontext 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 FUZZYFRONT 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
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- 23. The Polak Game PETERHAYWARD / 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 FutureStudies 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).”
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- 27. ForesightNZ Playing Cards McGUINNESSINSTITUTE
- 28. 2050 Scenarios TE REOMĀORI, CLIMATE, GAMING, EDUCATION
- 29. Climate Scenario > Fish Stocksdecrease > 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 ideaabout 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 QUALITIESOF A FUTURE LEADER
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- 35. Energy from toxicfish FUTURE TAONGA
- 36. United Nations ofIndigenous Peoples FUTURE TAONGA
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- 38. Importance of culturalframing A DECOLONISING APPROACH
- 39. Tikanga Tikanga of TeAtiawa > 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 BREAKINGFREE OF ASSUMPTIONS
- 42. The importance ofmaking ENABLING DIFFERENT WAYS TO ENGAGE
- 43. Building bridges FOR PEOPLETO ESCAPE THE PRESENT
- 44. Concepts of time TIMEBENDS TO THE WORK VS WORK BENDS TO THE TIME
- 45. Why does thismatter?
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- 47. Chicago The city’s namecomes 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 theknowledge that we privilege
- 49. Col. John Boyd OODALOOP “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 mostpotent, design challenges the status quo imagines new systems, creates agency and empowers people.
- 51. Danah Abdulla DECOLONIZE DESIGN “[Designtoday] 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.
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- 53. Toni Morrison 2003 “I tellmy 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 allbeen brilliantly trained...
- 55. ...you all havepower...
- 56. ...in your nextproject, empower somebody else.
- 57. Kia ora andthank you for listening www.wecreatefutures.com Instagram: wecreatefutures Twitter: futureswecreate
- 58. ABOUT US Whakatuaki “Titiro whakamurihaere whakamua I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past Whaktauki Māori proverb