Decolonizing participatory design: Memory making in Namibia

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Decolonizing participatory design: Memory making in Namibia. / Smith, Rachel Charlotte; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Kambunga, Asnath Paula; Krishnamurthy, Sarala.

In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Vol 1. Bind 1 ACM Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. s. 96-106.

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt

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Smith, RC, Winschiers-Theophilus, H, Kambunga, AP & Krishnamurthy, S 2020, Decolonizing participatory design: Memory making in Namibia. i In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Vol 1. bind 1, ACM Association for Computing Machinery, s. 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385021

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Smith, R. C., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Kambunga, A. P., & Krishnamurthy, S. (2020). Decolonizing participatory design: Memory making in Namibia. I In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Vol 1 (Bind 1, s. 96-106). ACM Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385021

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Smith RC, Winschiers-Theophilus H, Kambunga AP, Krishnamurthy S. Decolonizing participatory design: Memory making in Namibia. I In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Vol 1. Bind 1. ACM Association for Computing Machinery. 2020. s. 96-106 https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385021

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Smith, Rachel Charlotte ; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike ; Kambunga, Asnath Paula ; Krishnamurthy, Sarala. / Decolonizing participatory design: Memory making in Namibia. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Vol 1. Bind 1 ACM Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. s. 96-106

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