Decolonising in, by and through participatory design with political activists in Palestine

We contribute a conceptual framework for decolonising PD praxis with the aim of surfacing unsettling agendas. Our framework was developed in response to collaborating with young Bedouin activists in Palestine, where there is a need not only to delink approaches from potential damaging epistemological and ontological ways of knowing and being, but to recognise differently constituted po- sitionalities, the geopolitical specificities of place and the role of INGOs alongside the cultural contexts of ongoing violence. We de- fine our orientations as decolonising in, by and through PD praxis when working on issues of land-based conflict. We argue these multiplicitous orientations allow for negotiations between polit- ical struggle and indigenous connection to the land, how INGOs embody conflicting justice agendas and how equity enriches yet complicates community sustainment. In contexts of ongoing indige- nous land-based conflict, we detail the framework as an approach for unsettling PD praxis.