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

Kambunga, Asnath Paula; Smith, Rachel Charlotte; Winschiers‐Theophilus, Heike; Otto, Ton

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2023.101170

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“…In design-related disciplines such as information systems, ICT, HCI, and CSCW, we've witnessed continual efforts to decolonize computing research and application. Echoing Lazem and colleagues' provocation that "as far as computing is characteristic of a modern world, it is also characteristic of a colonial movement" [25, p. 167], we are particularly pointing attention to how the "failure to interrogate the particularities of Western modernity/coloniality in the postcolony (as in the here and the now) might signal the performance of a colonizing reality that promises progress but instead threatens the prospects of being and living in a satisfactory society" [2, p. [24][25]. Even when there is the recognition that colonial ontologies and epistemologies direct computing research [4,44,45], the effort towards decolonisation tends to be an abstraction of intellectual critiques [37] rather than a dedicated ethical agenda that investigates the body-politics and geo-politics of design [25].…”

Section: Politics Of Design In Hci -From Postcolonial To Decolonial T...mentioning

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"\"Remembering” as a Decolonial Praxis in African HCI and Design"

Adamu,

Nkwo

2023

Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference

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The fourth wave of HCI sought to engage with the ethics, politics, and values of design as an engine of modernity/coloniality. In doing so, we've witnessed a series of critiques and reflections on how the broadening of context and application in the third wave does not equate to any substantial structural changes in the ontologies and epistemologies informing HCI research and design. This can be attributed to the inevitable chaos of multiplicity inherent in HCI -and issues that we reckon could further implicate the efforts towards politicizing design as applied in the context of Africa. In this conceptual paper, we take the politics of design to another level by integrating distinct religious and sociopolitical practices across Africa in showing the colonizing dimension of the entirety of modern design enterprise. We argue that remembering the onomatopoeic dynamic of Amun-RA and the Ekumeku -both as theological thoughts and political praxis that are situated in African traditions -could provide a powerful instrument for 'asking questions' and 'forming conversation' on how technology can be developed and evaluated in/from African communities. Building on this year's theme of 'beyond limit', this study showcases how decolonizing African design entails, on an abstract level, a decolonisation of the imagination. To go beyond colonially imposed limits in computing research and design, we ought to remember our histories and cultures clearly, there is a designerly power in remembering.

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Section: Politics Of Design In Hci -From Postcolonial To Decolonial T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

"\"Remembering” as a Decolonial Praxis in African HCI and Design"

Adamu,

Nkwo

2023

Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference

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From applied ethics and ethical principles to virtue and narrative in AI practices

Hayes,

Fitzpatrick,

Ferrández

2024

AI Ethics

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The question of how we can use ethics and ethical frameworks to avert the negative consequences of AI through guidance on human behaviour and the design of technological systems has recently been receiving increasing attention. The appropriate response to an ethics of AI has certainly been contentious. For some years the wisdom of deontology and utilitarianism in the ethics of technology has been questioned. Today, a kind of AI ethics principlism has gained a degree of widespread acceptance, yet it still invites harsh rejections in recent scholarship. In this paper, we wish to explore the contribution to an ethics of AI made by a narrative philosophy and ethics of technology inspired by the ‘little ethics’ of Paul Ricoeur, and virtue ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre, most recently and promisingly built upon by Wessel Reijers and Mark Coeckelbergh. The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which a narrative and virtue based ethics (or, VPD, i.e., virtuous practice design) might be a plausible candidate for the foundation of an ethics of AI, or rather ethical AI practice. This will be achieved by exploring the ways in which this approach can respond to some of the significant faults with or critiques of applied and principles and guidelines based ethical approaches to AI ethics.

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