Towards a Decolonized Future: Desettling HCI

In the era of global crises, the role of educators to shape better possible futures has become ever more critical. Indigenous educators of Turtle Island (North America) (and elsewhere) have long advocated for forward looking education that orients society towards ethics of long-term social justice, community-oriented concepts of health and sustainable ecological balance. HCI as a field has become ever more central in its capacity to shape our futures. As such, we argue that the integration of pedagogies common to Turtle Island Indigenous education models into HCI education would help foster the types of world-changing innovation that is necessary to meet and mitigate world-changing crises. The particular focus in this paper is climate change, but given the outbreak of Covid-19 since its initial writing, we also feel it is relevant to that ongoing crisis and have made adjustments reflecting that.