Indigenous wisdom and the civilisational shift from ego to eco

Found at The Presencing Institute
Melanie Goodchild founded Turtle Island Institute to be a ‘think and do tank’, a teaching lodge that focuses on “innovating for survival and radical inclusion, as opposed to innovating for progress.”

“I had to go back and think about: What would the ancestors have done? How would they have started something like an institute for social innovation? I knew that it meant going back on the land.”

She says we have been socialised to understand Western knowledge traditions as universal, when in fact they are culturally specific. Decolonising design requires ‘cultural fluency’ – knowing your own knowledge system well, before honing the ability to weave together different knowledge systems in an ethical and respectful way.