Relational Technology: A Methodology to Work for the Land

As engineering educators, we need to access approaches that support alternative engineering systems. This paper offers such an alternative in “relational technology”, which is being developed by the first author for their doctoral research as a methodology to teach students to work for Indigenous sovereignty and for the Land. The literature review explains the concept of technology and its development process, design for technology and design for social justice approaches to technology development, social technology and relationality methodologies to build an understanding of how relational technology was conceptualized. Later, we define the methodology and explain the 5 phases for relational technology research projects.