Against the Grain
Living Archives
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
Image Matters
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Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha
Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.
Making and Unmaking
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A Rejection of the Term “Vernacular”
An analysis of the colonizing word coined for the sake of othering design languages that dare to challenge Eurocentric norms.
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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
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Errata
An exhibition about the invisibility of Portuguese women designers.
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Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns
Artist Lawrence Lemaoana on coding narratives into textiles and his uneasy relationship with the art world.
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When a Tree Says No
Following histories of deforestation, dispossession, epistemic violence, and resistance.
Politics of Display
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Culture, No Context
Face to face with the ethics of European Ethnographic Museums.
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An Accidental Game of Telephone
How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.
