ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we present a design anthropological approach to the promotion of pluriversal futures in which different modes of research, interventions and technologies are used to enable the emergence of multiple voices, memories, and perspectives. We frame our discussion with a focus on contested everyday contexts, to present a strategy for exploring pluriversal futures by amplifying previously unheard voices and creating dialogues about contentious issues. This focus on contested everyday spaces is connected towards the inclusion of mundane and marginalised voices of young people and communities that experience ‘othering’ or oppression in relation to dominant narratives and positionings. Based on participatory memory work across Denmark, Namibia, and Greenland, we present a research case undertaken in Namibia with a group of young people from the “Born Free” generation and demonstrate how we worked towards pluriversality through different conceptual spaces in the research process. The chapter contributes a framework for decolonising participatory memory work in contested contexts through three core conceptual spaces: reflective safe spaces, creative third spaces, and dialogic public spaces, which together can support the shift towards pluriversality.
