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Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures

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Kambunga, Asnath Paula, Smith, Rachel Charlotte, Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike, Otto, Ton·2023·Design Studies
DOI 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101170
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This article introduces the concept of the ‘safe space’ in design interventions: a socially developed environment for thoughts, actions, and mutual learning in political and contested contexts. The safe space responds to current challenges within decolonial design practices and calls for a plurality of knowledge and voices. We present a study in which we developed safe spaces with young Namibians by combining core elements of design anthropology and community-based participatory design through interventions, dialogic engagements, and co-design. We demonstrate how the intentional design practice of a safe space enables new ways of working in a contested context. The article presents a framework for designing and developing safe spaces, focusing on working with multiple temporalities and the social production of spaces.

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Authors
Kambunga, A. P., Smith, R. C., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., & Otto, T.
Affiliations
Aarhus University (DK)
Corresponding author
Smith, Rachel Charlotte
ORCID
Venue
Design Studies
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2023-05
Volume
86
Pages
101170
ISSN
0142-694X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.destud.2023.101170
OpenAlex
W4360966875
Cited by
49
References
1
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2026: 14 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 1
FWCI
11.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Design Studies (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Design Education and Practice
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
Keywords
decolonial design, safe spaces, multiple knowledges, design anthropology, co-design, dialogic engagement, multiple temporalities, production of space, youth, Namibia

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