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Title: Designing for technological sovereignty: Forms of relating with culture and technology through community workshops
As new technologies proliferate our world, many well-meaning efforts seek to expand access to and broaden participation in STEM education and careers, yet many of these efforts disregard the fact that science, technology, and design are cultural processes. Building on a growing body of work, we examine how families experience and design together at the intersection of culture and technology. Drawing on Indigenous science and culturally sustaining/revitalizing perspectives, we investigate the ways in which families engage with culture and technology during a plant walk led by Tribal Elders that included a Tribally- designed virtual reality (re)interpretation of the experience. Insights from our findings highlight ways in which one Tribal Nation balanced culture and technology in ways that reclaimed their uses to maintain technological sovereignty and self-determination as designers.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1943630
PAR ID:
10406295
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Editor(s):
Chinn, C.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
ISSN:
1573-4552
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1193-1196
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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