Participation otherwise: Practices by/from the Global South

Abstract

In response to Arturo Escobar's invitation to design new worlds, it is fundamental to map forms of participation often silenced by hegemonic practices of participatory design (PD). In this full day interactive workshop, we hope to map practices of Participatory Design Otherwise, and reflect about what does it means to participate by/from the Global South, especially Latin America. Our intention is to make visible the nature and territoriality of these ways of doing. Understanding that this event will be held for the first time in Latin America, we seek a theoretical alignment with Latin American thinkers, running this workshop based on the techniques and methods of Theatre of the Oppressed, developed by Augusto Boal. We will also use references inspired by black and indigenous ancestry, as the Pedagogia das Encruzilhadas (the Pedagogy of the Crossroads) and the Pedagogia do Parente (Relative's Pedagogy). As indigenous leader Ailton Krenak says, we need to postponing the end of the world by nurturing our subjectivities and expand our horizons to other creativities and narratives. That's what we expect to see in this rich encounter.