Design Beku
Design Beku
Design Beku aims “to explore the possibilities of manifesting alternative imaginaries for design and technology, grounded in a feminist ethics of care.” The practice was “founded in response to mainstream design impulse to 'solve' problems for communities, especially through technological interventions that were often irrelevant and unsuited to their context. At the core [their] approach is the feminist ethical frame of care —a situated, continuous and collaborative tinkering of matters of concerns, drawing upon empathy as well as solidarity with the communities [they] work with. [Design Beku] see codesign as a care-in-practice, an onto-epistemology that orients [them] to align with marginalized populations and their concerns to collaboratively evolve systemic solutions, enabled by but not led by technology. This codesign is only possible by establishing and sustaining meaningful relationships with the communities [they] work with.”