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PAPERS: Central but Decentered: Repositioning the Practitioner in Design Research Involving Practice Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-2-edinburgh Session Chair: Luis Vega, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Session Chair: Julia Valle Noronha, Aalto University | |
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A Researcher and a Guide Talk Into a Paper: A Dialogue on Being Many Things at Once 1: Srishti Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India; 2: Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands This paper argues that the positionality of the practitioner-researcher often remains centered in the self-reflective question “Who am I?”, fixing identity at the core of a relational web. We propose shifting this inquiry toward “Who can I be?” and “Who can I be in relation?”, recognising identity as fluid, contextual, and co-constituted through relationships. The paper unfolds through a conversational method that unpacks the ongoing PhD research of the first author. The authors navigate this landscape of lived research and practice in dialogue with two simultaneously held identities - the Practitioner-Researcher and the Scholar-Provocateur. Drawing from decolonial praxis, we conceptualise a Relational Navigation System: a way of orienting oneself temporally and contextually within the living network of relationships one inhabits. Here, conversation itself becomes method, a site of inquiry and knowledge production, revealing how decentering the practitioner allows for a more responsive, plural, and relational practice of research. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1032
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