Researching with Indigenous Youth: Using design to support identity representation in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited academic talk

Description

An interactive presentation exploring a participatory intervention focused on using design with indigenous youth: more specifically, forming pictograms to enhance identity representation that could support specific claims in the political spaces of education, public communication, and agency. The presentation reported on ongoing action research with Indigenous youths of different nationalities based in the Amazonian region of Ecuador.
Period7 Dec 2023
Held atUniversity of Torino, Italy
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Representation
  • participatory design
  • action research
  • marginalized communities
  • agency