The Decolonial Working Group has developed a portfolio of mutually reinforcing practices and resources designed to be freely shared, adapted, and reused across educational and research contexts. A central achievement has been the creation of openly accessible research and educational tools that support researchers, educators, students, and practitioners in reflecting on questions of justice, inclusion, power, and plurality in technology design, engineering, and climate governance. Together, these outputs form an emerging portfolio for inclusive and participatory Open Science.
A short documentary film developed by Myra Colis, Anna Melnyk, and Laure Herpain through a co-creative process involving researchers, Indigenous knowledge holders, artists, and community partners. Rather than merely communicating research findings, the documentary itself became a site of co-created knowledge production, demonstrating how creative methods can contribute to Open Science.
Developed by Anna Melnyk and Ángela Díaz-Márquez, this openly licensed educational resource adds ten decolonial notions (e.g. power and privilege, positionality, epistemic diversity, and relational responsibility) to the Value Sensitive Design (VSD) Envisioning Cards. Tested in 2025 workshops at Leiden University and TU Delft (JustETrans) and co-created with ten women photographers from Colectivo Fotográfico SolipsisArt (Ecuador). Released openly in English, Spanish, and French.
As part of the Critical Raw Materials Seed Grant, the group devised transdisciplinary workshops bringing professors and students at TU Delft into dialogue with representatives of Indigenous communities affected by the extraction of critical raw materials — positioning communities not as research subjects but as knowledge leaders.
Decolonial and ritualized-space pedagogies are embedded in teaching open to the whole university (TPM415C; the IED Minor), and the group’s scholarship is openly available. The Reciprocity Loop Protocol, an open output for non-extractive community engagement, is shared publicly for reuse.