"What if Western evolutionary and ecological sciences had been developed from the start within Buddhist instead of Protestant ways of worlding?"

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016)

A Path Towards Technodiversity

To answer this, my work builds on the concept of Cosmotechnics from philosopher Yuk Hui.

He argues that technology is never universal, but always an expression of a specific cosmology. The task is to move beyond a mono-technology and cultivate technodiversity.

1. ■ The Digital Monoculture

2. ■ Digital Coloniality

3. ■ A Posture of Listening

4. ■ Technologies of Relationality

5. ■ Designing for Plural Technological Worlds

Digital Coloniality

Digital Coloniality describes how digital technologies impose a single ontology—a specific way of knowing, being, and relating. It is the imposition of a logic that quantifies reality and invisibilizes all other worldviews.

Purely Transactional Value

Decolonial Listening

To engage with alternative worlds without reproducing epistemic violence, my research adopts a specific posture.

The posture must not be that of incorporation, definition, or classification, but that of listening.

"I think it would be misleading to separate Silicon Valley from the technologies that my family traditions come from... the internet, from my family’s point of view, is something that was foreseen but is also something that had been practiced for many, many generations."

George Mahashe In discussion with Juan Fortun, Senegal 2024

"The drum is not just for dancing; it is communication... the sound of the drums in unison was like a sound of war. They had their weapons, and we had our drums... With a weapon in his hand, a policeman saw danger in a drum."

— Miriam Miranda, in discussion with Juan Fortun, Geneva 2025

The Decolonial Interface: Beyond Control

Adopting relational worldviews means abandoning the interface as a tool of 'command and control'. It must become a space for negotiation between human, non-human, and ecological agencies.

Technologies of Solidarity

Technodiversity means placing a community server on the same plane as a collective performance. Configuring a mesh network becomes as important as maintaining oral traditions.

Rethinking "Good" Technology

Technologies are never intrinsically efficient; they become so within environments built to favor them. The metric of success must shift from 'efficiency' to collective well-being.

Embodying Relational Epistemologies

Music, dance, and ritual are not 'content' to be digitized, but relational architectures that can inspire new digital infrastructures.

Current Work: Finding Alliances

This work is supported by a fellowship from FUTURESS, a Swiss non-profit association promoting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of design, art, and science.

Collaboration as Method

Within this framework, I am in collaboration with the Yanakuna community of Cauca, Colombia, and their intercultural university, UAIN-CRIC, to co-design digital tools for territorial defense.