KEY PRINCIPLES
We strive to action universal forms of justice.
We consider the first step in universal justice to exemplified through our own individual, ethical decision making and capacity to engage with consent . This process of respectful dialogue, action statements and convivial processes is underpinned by and enacted through the power of veto.
We measure success as our capacity to action environmental protection, upholding human rights, and advocacy for social justice. Our emancipatory conduct is accountable and made transparent through the visibility of our partnerships, professional associations, and ethical funding sources.
A respectful working methodology centered on listening - Ngikalikarra, ensures the transferability of project outcomes, cultural engagements, and open science contributions. Our collaborative, Reveal: Make Seen framework - Kalara, provides the foundation for community engagements.
COMMITMENT
We consider ethics as an individual’s responsibility.
It is a privilege to work with a diverse range of people, organizations, and communities from many different nations and countries. We have learned a great deal from good people of principle, individuals who live by their principles rather than abandoning them when it is convenient. The capacity to act with consent and respect the power of veto has emerged as the first step in that emancipatory journey together.
CORE VALUES
We each bear responsibility for societal well-being.
Our core values are central to the transfer of knowledge through a respectful listening engagement - Ngikalikarra. We reinforce that ethical tenets preface moral values, with participation guided by an enduring and ‘reveal make-seen’ methodology - Kalara.
GOALS & ASPIRATIONS
We work for the greater good of humanity.
Our contributions are grounded in a responsible, ethically defensible, and strength-based action orientation. We take great ideas and make them real, always developing with technologies that match our client’s aspirations.
ACTION ORIENTATION
We listen, we observe and we relate.
It is a privilege to work with brilliant people, each protecting the personal, cultural, and civil rights of others, communities, and their Country. In admiration and respect for those who are supporting themselves, their families, and their communities, we assist them to achieve their goals through an ethically defensible and strength-based action orientation.
LISTENING
Careful listening underpins all of our business activity.
Through a participatory working methodology - Kalara - we deliver service that is often focused on co-production leading to open access publication. Therefore, listening - Ngikalikarra is one of the fundamental skills we engage with as a responsible partner in the co-creation space. This methodological approach ensures knowledge is transferable as both an artifact and a catalyst for new connections.
OBSERVING
We are individually gifted with the power of observation.
This respectful exchange is the basis upon which our positions on matters that lead to actions as upholding a fair and reasonable democracy. We are also cognizant that our service is based on careful listening, yet each observable moment presents as an opportunity to abandon ‘othering’ and focus on acceptance, in-and-of-itself our own empathetic lived experience. Commensurately, we consider any tool which captures, retains, or aggregates observation as being a ‘listening’ device ie. a camera used to record an interaction, then edited and distributed as a film or video.
RELATING
We maintain respectful and timely service delivery.
We often call upon our business advisory body who strategically monitors and communicates our successes or need for change as a quality assurance measure. Our impartiality (<> neutrality) though, is both responsive to and dutifully challenging of, legal constraints. We respectfully engage with cultural and legal advisors to inform service delivery, as researchers, educators, filmmakers, and designers, mindful that we also relate individually within our life-world. An examination of our core working methodologies and service engagement invariably, as a result, pivots on ethics, value, and our capacity to action change.
NETWORKING
We advance equity and justice with the use of technology.
As decreed by Upturn, we believe technology should advance justice, not amplify racial and economic inequities. We consider our work at a critical juncture of technoethics, regularly contributing to technocritical scholarship, bringing interdisciplinary views and voices together seeking equity. Our partnerships ensure local and national leaders, experts and communities can defend their rights through open access expressions as stories through the Internet.