New Humanitarian Engineering: Co-creating with communities
Humanitarian Engineering: Beyond reductionism
"The HE program at Mines has developed a framework for what it means to be a socially-responsible engineer and to engage with the community. More recently, work by Lucena and Smith has begun to define elements of socially-responsible engineering. These include:
- Understanding structural conditions and power differentials among specific project stakeholders.
- Contextually listening to all stakeholders, especially those who are marginalised, to understand their worldview and grasp their needs, desires, and fears.
- Collaboratively identifying opportunities and limitations of creating shared social, environmental, and economic value for all stakeholders, especially those who are marginalised.
- Adapting engineering decision-making to promote those shared values, acknowledging situations in which this is not possible and engineering projects should not move forward.
- Collaboratively assessing activities and outcomes with all stakeholders"
Posted: April 14, 2021, 3:30 PM