A korero (dialogue) about privilege and biases

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Korero about privileges and biases
Ricardo Sosa, PhD

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Aotearoa New Zealand
Māori + Tauiwi
Tangata Whenua + Tangata Tiriti
A korero (dialogue) to question
ideas taken for granted

5. “The Privilege Walk”
To reflect on personal
+ system causes and
consequences
https://youtu.be/hD5f8GuNuGQ
https://youtu.be/_h938XCpI7U
https://miro.com/miroverse/the-privilege-walk-game/

6. Privilege  Handicap
‘Designers’ (reflexivity)
‘Stakeholders’ (politics)
‘Users’ (ethics)

7. Generative ideas:
1. Empathy can be a colonising technology
2. Experiences are not design material
3. Participation and co-creation before design

8. Empathy
Privacy, Appropriation
Shared lived experience
Critical consciousness + Solidarity
Paulo Freire (1921-1997)

9. Experiences
Principle of Natality
Plurality & Vita Activa
Design: work, Creativity: action
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975)

10. Participation
Co-creation
Commitment to dialogue
Listen to senti-pensar-hacer
Zapatistas (1994 - ) http://viajezapatista.eu

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Thank you!
Ricardo Sosa, PhD
about.me/designcomputing

12. 1. Beyond individualized strategies (“privilege checking”) in
response to public problems
2. Other ways of seeing the world (and of doing design)
3. The risks of virtue signalling (beyond good intentions)