Cross-Cultural Design
Cross-cultural design studies serve as a corrective against applying methods from one context uncritically to another, and the book folds this into a broader capacity for cross-cultural humility and respectful dialogue with diverse knowledge systems.
The book names Cross-Cultural Design studies as a corrective within Design Ethnoevolution's account of contextual adaptation: 'Reflective Practice on methodological fit and Cross-Cultural Design studies help here,' addressing the risk that 'applying a method developed in one context uncritically to another... can be ineffective or harmful.' In its closing chapter on cultivating temporal wisdom, it is folded into the capacity of 'Cross-Cultural Humility & Inter-Epistemic Dialogue: Recognizing the limits of one's own cultural framework and engaging respectfully, reciprocally, collaboratively, and non-extractively with diverse knowledge systems, worldviews, and community protocols.'
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Entries this one is tied to through the book.
Methods
- Artifact Analysis · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Design Archive Research · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Design Fiction · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Precedent Study · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Reflective Practice · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Speculative Design · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Futures Studies / Futurology · discussed together in section 020
- Regeneration · discussed together in section 020
In the Framework
- Design Ethnoevolution · concept
In the book
- Chapter 2, section 019 · Design Ethnoevolution: The Evolution of Knowledge
- Chapter 2, section 020 · Cultivating Temporal Wisdom
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