SWARAJ UNIVERSITY — SOME MODES OF SEEING AND ANALYSIS

• Gandhian Talisman (from the perspective of poorest of poor and socially marginalized)
• Follow the Money (who funds the research, training?)
• Power dynamics — gender, caste, class
• Empathy (What is it like being like in the shoes of the other?)
• Design thinking (feel, imagine, do share)/prototyping/iteration
• Nature-centric (from the perspective of non-human beings)
• Technology (76 questions to ask of every technology)
• Grandmother’s wisdom/gross national happiness/buen vivir
• Product life-cycle (extraction, production, distribution, disposal)
• Systems thinking
• Counter-productivity/unintended consequences
• Prisoner’s Dilemma/Free Rider
• Sensory/intuitive/energetic
• Propaganda techniques (3rd party, Strawman)
• Scarcity vs. abundance
• Trust-based
• Cost-benefit