Value-mapping transitions into the Pluriverse : Design notes on Participatory Methods, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Emergency Community Resilience within the Ring of Fire

Lujan Escalante, M.A. and Mortimer, C. (2022) Value-mapping transitions into the Pluriverse : Design notes on Participatory Methods, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Emergency Community Resilience within the Ring of Fire. In: PDC 2022 - Embracing Cosmologies : Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 1 . Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 50-62. ISBN 9781450393881

Abstract

This article presents research notes used to devise the participatory design method we propose as Pluriversal Transition Value Mapping (PTVM). This is a reflection on 3 exercises carried out in 3 countries of the Pacific Ring of Fire , a label that describes the Southeast Asian regional disposition to intensifying disasters of epic proportions. This is a diffraction through a transgressive ontoepistemological questioning; what it means to know, to research, to design and to manage in the context of a global crises of crises management. Understanding knowledge co-creation as a technology of power, this paper brings together dispersed case studies emerging in the intersection of Traditional Ecological Knowledges (TEK) and Disaster and Risk Management, to make an argument to the relevance of TEK in crisis management. We detail PTVM facilitation to inspire transdisciplinary teams. We discuss ethical implications of participating in worlds that were not ours. And finally, we shared design insights to end with provocations around the linkage of participatory design and transitions into the pluriverse.