This is a video rebroadcast from Paul Dourish's guest lecture at the Teaching From Country seminar given this summer at the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Charles Darwin University

Abstract:

"Projects like Teaching From Country exemplify an approach to culturally-sensitive information system design that depends on close partnership between different stakeholders and knowledge communities. These projects emphasize the deeply local practices that make technologies meaningful to particular communities, in contrast to the universalizing assumptions that lie behind many of the representational systems at the heart of information technology design. They also throw up important questions for the methods by which these systems are developed. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing research into the "portability" of technological design methods and design approaches (with a particular emphasis on interactive digital technologies) and discuss our work to date, which has looked in particular at design practice in India, using this to ground a conversation about the experience of the TfC project and potential relationships between the two."

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