Design Education

Pedagogies of Freedom
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.

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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.

Pedagogies of Freedom
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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.

Complaint Collective
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.

Against the Grain
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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.

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.

Voices
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”

Voices
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) the Decolonising Design group.

Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.