Mapping Indigenous Futures: Decolonising Techno-Colonising Designs

The Mapping Indigenous Futures: Decolonising Techno-Colonising Designs provides a critical interrogation of the consequences of modernity and coloniality, particularly in an Aboriginal Australian context, with focus on the accelerating speed of socio-communicative technological change. The paper provides five provocations that illustrate ways in which the nature of modernity enables socio-communicative technologies to increasingly eliminate groups’ capacities to imagine decolonising being-human. It includes application of learnings surrounding decolonising design modes of listening and comprehending that can contribute to help groups think, talk and map their situatedness and mobilise decolonising options for their own worlds.