Meri Leeworthy

Autonomous Design

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Presuppositions to a design process:

  1. Every community practices the design of itself
  2. people are practitioners of their own knowledge
  3. What the community designs, in the first instance, is an inquiring or learning system about itself
  4. Every design process involves a statement of problems and possibilities
  5. This exercise may take the form of building a model of the system that generates the problem of communal concern (slightly modified from Proceso de Comunidades Negras and Escobar 1998) Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationality and the Communal 184-5 “Autonomy-oriented design

I live and work on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay respect to their elders past and present and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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