Culturally-Situated Design

An approach to technology design that treats culture — including national identity, religion, ethnicity, language, geo-politics, and community traditions — as central to user needs and design decisions rather than as a surface localisation concern. Culturally-situated design commits to surfacing culturally-relevant factors in research, recruitment, analysis, and artifact production, and often draws on participatory, community-embedded, and decolonial methods. In accessibility work it intersects with disability culture, neurodiversity culture, and intersectional identity, resisting a one-size-fits-all export of Western-oriented accessibility patterns.