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Indigenous design and research ethics

Indigenous design and research ethics

Wed
24
Jun
Time Wednesday 24 June, 2026 at 09:00 - 11:00
Place Designhögskolan, Östra Strandgatan 30, Umeå Arts Campus – Green Room

The panel is organised as part of the NordForsk project MAST (Making Knowledge for Sustainability Transformation). In the network we explore cross-fertilizations between Indigenous knowing-through-making and art and design knowing-through-making and dialogue between global North and global South in cultural exchange and capacity building.

Schedule:

  • 09.00-09.30 Coffee and mingle
  • 09.30-10.00 Várdduo Director and Deputy Director, Christina Storm Mienna and Kristina Sehlin MacNeil: Indigenous Methodologies and Ethics, and the current work with research ethics in Sápmi.
  • 10.00-10.20 Samuel Valkeapää, Sámi allaskuvla: Sámi research ethics through the lens of duodji and design.
  • 10.20-10.40 Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Namibia University of Science and Technology: 30 years’ working with Indigenous people in Nambia.
  • 10.40-11.00 Discussion, reflections, Q+A.
Event type: Seminar