Ahmed Ansari
Abstract
A closer attention to cultural and cosmological difference as the basis for thinking about how we redesign our own modern technological infrastructures may be the way to decolonize design research.
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Index Terms
- Decolonizing design through the perspectives of cosmological others: Arguing for an ontological turn in design research and practice
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