ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the notion of “Other Participation” from the perspective of a Design and Anthropology laboratory located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Discussed at the last Participatory Design Conference, the notion of “Participation Otherwise” has been approached as a contribution of the Global South to the hegemonic practices of the Global North. In this chapter, this vision is questioned in favor of a proposal of “southerning the world” from a nomadization of design research, with less methodologies and more movement. Two types of movements are then presented: movements through alliances in experiments that interweave design and agroecology; and movements by correspondence in experiments that intertwine design and anthropology. Without belonging to the North or the South, this design without interiority or exteriority continues in movement and may point to other possibilities of participation.
