Decolonization
#Epistemic Activism
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Kusvikirwa: A Decolonial Spirit
Reconnecting with the past through ancestral practices in Zimbabwe.
#Feminist Curricula
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
#Incomplete Compendia
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A Resource Hub for Decolonizing Typography
Texts, lectures and other materials that help disrupt the Eurocentric status quo in type design education and practice.
#Designing Resistance
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
#Feminist Curricula
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“Teach What You Need to Learn”
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
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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.
#Earthshaking
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#Fashion #SustainableFashion #FashionFutures
Debunking hashtags to imagine generative fashion systems in times of ecological collapse.
#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
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#Feminist Curricula
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The Last Shift
Field notes from La Entrega Final, or how feminist activism plays itself in the Chair of Design and Gender Studies at FADU, Buenos Aires.
#Politics of Display
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The Interlocality of Typography
A conversation with Yu Jiwon about the suggestions of typographic diversity in society and culture.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.
#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.
#Designing Resistance
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.
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#Vulnerable Observers
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) Decolonising Design, a group founded in 2016 by eight design researchers, artists, and activists, stemming from the Global South.
#Earthshaking
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
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#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.