Bath, Morgan and Ghantous, Danny (2024) Exploring Positionality Workbook. In: Anticipation Conference 2024, September 11-14, 2024, Lancaster University, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Exploring Positionality: A Self-Reflection Workbook Using the Power Flower Tool
Presented at the Anticipation Conference, September 2024

Authors: Morgan Bath & Danny Ghantous
This workbook supports researchers, designers and foresight practitioners alike in building reflexive, positionality-informed practices through structured self-exploration. Grounded in intersectional feminist theory and critical pedagogy, it adapts the Power Flower tool, originally developed for educators in Educating for Change (Arnold, 1991) to research contexts, enabling individuals to map and reflect on the dynamics of their social identities in relation to systems of power, advantage, and marginalization.
Developed iteratively through workshops with diverse participants from design and foresight communities, this resource integrates identity-based reflection with design-justice and research reflexivity methods. The workbook facilitates deep introspection across personal, collective, and social contexts, encouraging users to articulate how lived experience, bias and positionality shape their design and research approaches. By engaging with guided reflection prompts and an adaptable identity-mapping tool (the Power Flower), participants are invited to continuously re-examine their assumptions, uncover blind spots, and situate themselves within their research and design groups and contexts.
This contribution supports the reflexive and critical capacity of individuals and teams by cultivating a practice of grounded, accountable research, offering a replicable model for integrating reflexivity into research, design and futures-oriented work.

Item Type:	Conference/Workshop Item (Other)
Divisions:	Graduate Studies > Strategic Foresight and Innovation
Date Deposited:	15 Apr 2025 12:54
Last Modified:	15 Apr 2025 13:00
URI:	https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4630

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