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Value Mapping for the Pluriverse

Methodological approach to incorporate traditional ecological knowledges (TEK) in supporting community-led participatory government for disaster preparedness and resilience

Resilience Development Initiative - Indonesia,

Padjaran University, Bandung-Indonesia

Universiti Sains Malaysia : Computer Science Department, Penang, Malaysia

Thammasat University: Urban Research Unit, Bangkok,Thailand

National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines.

Lancaster University, UK

Lead by: Malé Luján Escalante, Chris Mortimer

Value Mapping for the Pluriverse is a tool to support participatory, cross-sector, cross-disciplinary collaboration in integrating TEK into strategies and policymaking for Public Protection Disaster Relief (PPDR) agencies and communities. The tool is a table-top exercise to map past emergency response actions with an added speculative exercise of integrating traditional and indigenous knowledges into a systemic map in order to identify leverage points of anticipatory actions. 

We held a series of pilot workshops across 4 countries of Southeast Asia, which started a process of follow-up collaborations in research that still continues. 

Value Mapping for the Pluriverse has been adopted in other projects related with other context beyond emergency preparedness and risk management. It was tested in the context of integrating TEK in Envision the Transition, a utopian imagination methodology to support the inner work of changemakers involved in transition actions. See More here LINK TO TRANSITION

Related Publications:

Luján Escalante, M. A., & Mortimer, C. (2022, August). Value-Mapping Transitions into the Pluriverse: Design Notes on Participatory Methods, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Emergency Community Resilience within the Ring of Fire. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022-Volume 1 (pp. 50-62) available here