This ground-breaking book by Huatong Sun introduces a postcolonial / decolonial critique to design practices. Too often, design for other cultural locales, or 'epistemic locations,' embeds and thus exports Euro-American assumptions as privileged methods. In a globalized world, these assumptions miss key criteria that would make technologies useful, or better, emancipatory. Novel, localized practices can in turn revolutionize personal technologies worldwide by
shifting the parameters for meaningful design."
Huatong Sun is Associate Professor of Digital Media and Global Design at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA. Her previous book, Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users (Oxford 2012), won a best technical communication book award from the National Council of Teachers of English of U.S.