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T1 - Challenges and Opportunities in Conducting and Applying Design Research beyond Global North to the Global South
AU - Tsekleves, Emmanuel
AU - Darby, Andy
AU - Ahorlu, Collins
AU - Pickup, Roger
AU - de Souza, Dziedzom
AU - Boakye, Daniel
PY - 2020/9/15
Y1 - 2020/9/15
N2 - With an increase in international projects, comes increased opportunities for design researchers to contribute to research that tackles Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South. Nevertheless, the role of design within this context is disparate and detached, with very limited design literature on the subject. As such, this paper has identified the key challenges and barriers that design researchers face in conducting and applying design research in a Global South Context. Based on a workshop with design research experts doing research in Global South, the literature and lessons learnt from running a design-led project in Ghana, we are presenting and discussing 45 challenges grouped under 13 themes. We envisage that these will form the first step towards developing strategies for mitigating these challenges and help current and future design researchers to engage further in international research in the Global South.
AB - With an increase in international projects, comes increased opportunities for design researchers to contribute to research that tackles Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South. Nevertheless, the role of design within this context is disparate and detached, with very limited design literature on the subject. As such, this paper has identified the key challenges and barriers that design researchers face in conducting and applying design research in a Global South Context. Based on a workshop with design research experts doing research in Global South, the literature and lessons learnt from running a design-led project in Ghana, we are presenting and discussing 45 challenges grouped under 13 themes. We envisage that these will form the first step towards developing strategies for mitigating these challenges and help current and future design researchers to engage further in international research in the Global South.
U2 - 10.21606/drs.2020.145
DO - 10.21606/drs.2020.145
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
VL - 3
T3 - DRS 2020 Proceedings
SP - 1336
EP - 1353
BT - Proceedings of DRS 2020 International Conference: Synergy
A2 - Boess, Stella
A2 - Cheung, Ming
A2 - Cain, Rebecca
PB - Design Research Society
ER -