Design Ethics

The Design Ethics of Culturally Sustaining & Revitalizing (Re)Presentation

In this paper, we wondered how we could create technologies (digital and non-digital) that support Indigenous ways of knowing, especially through storytelling. This is a process we call (re)presentation. Specifically, our work is centered on building culturally sustaining and revitalizing models for (re) presenting stories. Our team engaged in an iterative and reflexive design process with Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members, educators, designers, and researchers. We present a single design case of (re)presenting an Indigenous story across interactions and share four ethical tensions that we encountered throughout our process.

Citation

Litts, B. K., Tehee, M., Cardona-Rivera, R. E., & Alladin, J. K. (2024). The Design Ethics of Culturally Sustaining & Revitalizing (Re)Presentation. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 15(3), 189–199. https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v15i3.37742