The Other Others Indigenous Kodesign
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May 26, 2025 Jack Manning-Bancroft from the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab shares insights about co-design and its alignment with Indigenous practices. He discusses the creation of a 'law stick', representing biocultural connections to land. The conversation dives into the importance of interconnectedness in Indigenous worldviews and its implications for modern environmental practices. They explore how AI can visualize Indigenous knowledge, making it more accessible. Finally, they discuss using virtual worlds to facilitate meaningful dialogues and the role of digital tools in preserving cultural narratives.
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Kodesign as Biocultural Engagement
- Indigenous kodesign centers humans as bioculturally embedded with nature, not just nature-centric.
- It involves hearing the voice of country and being in ongoing dialogue with living systems.
Beyond Competitive Symbiosis
- Indigenous relationships go beyond predator-prey dynamics to a complex web without competition as the main rule.
- Dominant Western views limit understanding to competitive games, unlike Indigenous models of living systems.
Nature as an Informatic System
- Nature is a complex informatic system of signals in time-place, influencing species behaviors.
- Seasonality and interspecies cues trigger mating, feeding, and movement across ecosystems.