An exploration on relationality and decoloniality in participatory design based on care.

How is positionality brought into participatory practices? How are moments for self-reflection created in participatory design? How do design researchers challenge colonial perspectives in design? The workshop aims to create a space for a collective reflection on the need to undo the narratives of modernity and the cult of futurity that brings to the ubiquitous discourse on innovation as the only possible path for a better future. The workshop experiments with materiality as a channel to collectively explore how designing – as a transformative action embracing relationality – could adopt a pluriversal mindset. It furthers the discussion on relationality, elucidating elements that help nourish a caring and decolonial standpoint. Through the lenses of interdependency and pluriversal temporalities, it conveys a conversation on rearticulating relationality and pluriversality in co-design that should ultimately end in collective action and mutual commitment.