Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 17:44:52 JST

@scottmatter I prefer non-colonial #design. Co-design (inviting the ”them” for tea to pick their brains) is definitely better than ethnographic design (hiding in the bushes to observe the “them”) but I’d rather non-colonial design where there’s no “us” and “them”; where people have the tools and skills to design for themselves so “we” (privileged designers working at fancy corporations) don’t design for “them” (the people we profit from) but we all design for ourselves and our own communities.