Colonial history
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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We Belong to the Land
Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Bronze-Verdigris: a Colonial History
Seeking liberty in stolen bowls, historical mansions, deadly wallpapers, and fugitive greens.
#Politics of Display
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Fabricating the Dodo: the Making and Unmaking of a Bird
Revealing natural history museums’ politics of preservation and representation through an uncanny encounter with the most famous extinct bird.
#Living Archives
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
#Living Archives
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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
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#Epistemic Activism
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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.
#Politics of Display
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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
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#Earthshaking
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Un-sustaining Sustainability?
Tracing the colonial origins of India’s rising “sustainable” fashion industry
#Epistemic Activism
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Wokefishing
The pretensive premise of progressive views, and the false activism in the fashion industry.
#Designing Resistance
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“They are killing us”
How Peruvian designers are reshaping the way we see femicide.
#Designing Resistance
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Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns
Artist Lawrence Lemaoana on coding narratives into textiles and his uneasy relationship with the art world.
#Politics of Display
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Preserve, Revise, Remove, Radicalize
Monuments and memorials in the United States of America after 2020.
#Image Matters
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The Dark Side of Pictograms
How sports—in particular the Olympics—perpetuate multiple systems of oppression.
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#Politics of Display
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In the Name of ♥
Claiming the Semiotics of Power, Colonialism & Capitalism.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.
#Epistemic Activism
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When a Tree Says No
Following histories of deforestation, dispossession, epistemic violence, and resistance.
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#Politics of Display
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Culture, No Context
Face to face with the ethics of European Ethnographic Museums.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Blue
Bolting a chain of exploitation, from hardy rocky plants, to deep indigo dyes, and monumental stones.
#Betweeners
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) the Decolonising Design group.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Red
Tracing the bloodline of an ink from sixteenth century Abya Yala to the National Gallery in London.