Keshavarz, Mahmoud, Abdulla, Danah, Canlı, Ece, Kiem, Matthew, Oliveira, Pedro, Prado, Luiza, Schultz, Tristan, Göteborgs universitet, Konstnärliga fakulteten, HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design, and Gothenburg University, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design
Bloomsbury Design Library.
Subjects
Genusstudier, Gender Studies, Teknikhistoria, History of Technology, Bildkonst, Visual Arts, Design, Konstvetenskap, Art History, Kulturstudier, Cultural Studies, Etnologi, Ethnology, design, modernity, eurocentrism, patriarchy, racism, and methdologies
Abstract
This lesson plan examines how we—as design practitioners and theorists—can make sense of the concepts of decolonization and decoloniality in the context of our own situated practices. Colonized designs—as materialities surrounding us and making our worlds—are those that adhere to the patterns of a Western modernity that laid the foundations for an epistemic hegemony of the West over other worlds and are materialized through early twentieth-century modernist patterns of knowing, living, and being according to certain universalized form, function, production, meaning, and aesthetic values. How can we challenge these grand narratives by bringing hitherto underestimated and devalued knowledge and cosmologies into design? This lesson plan—catering to both studio and theory classes—provides an introduction to a range of influential approaches to thinking about decolonization, design, and their relationship.
Canli, Ece, Mandolini, Nicoletta, and Universidade do Minho
Subjects
Gender violence, Visual culture, Feminism, Gender studies, Violência de género, Cultura visual, Feminismo, Estudos de género, Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação, and Igualdade de género
Abstract
Versão portuguesa: Canlı, E., & Mandolini, N. (2022). Estética em angústia: A violência de género e a cultura visual. Nota introdutória. Vista, (10), e022009. https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4071
Schultz, Tristan, Abdulla, Danah, Ansari, Ahmed, Canlı, Ece, Keshavarz, Mahmoud, Kiem, Matthew, Martins, Luiza Prado de O., and J.S. Vieira de Oliveira, Pedro
Subjects
design Studies, decoloniality, ontological designing, pluriversality, Global South, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Cultural Studies, Artificiality, Intersectionality, Media studies, Eurocentrism, Sociology, Modernity, media_common.quotation_subject, media_common, Materiality (auditing), Oppression, Decoloniality, and Continental philosophy
Abstract
This roundtable was conducted by the eight founding members of Decolonising Design Group in October 2017, using an online messaging platform. Each member approached design and decoloniality from different yet interrelating viewpoints, by threading their individual arguments with the preceding ones. The piece thus offers and travels through a variety of subject matter including politics of design, artificiality, modernity, Eurocentrism, capitalism, Indigenous Knowledge, pluriversality, continental philosophy, pedagogy, materiality, mobility, language, gender oppression, sexuality, and intersectionality.
ACADEMIC discourse, MODERNITY, CULTURAL history, THEORY of knowledge, and TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
Abstract
The article offers information on the academic and professional discourse within the design disciplines. Topics discussed include information on the challenges to the modernity and its ideologies; discussions on the civilization history and the epistemological difference; and the information on the designing futures aimed at advancing ecological, social, and technological conditions.
Interface: A Journal on Social Movements; May2015, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p19-39, 21p
Subjects
GENDER, GEZI Park Protests, Turkey, 2013, PUBLIC demonstrations, INTERNATIONAL relations, IDEOLOGY, PUBLIC spaces, and SOLIDARITY
Abstract
In summer 2013, Istanbul was shaken by an enormous public protest which, besides its afflictive traces, engraved a great image of solidarity and change in the political history of Turkey. Whilst this solidarity comprised diverse groups of different political ideologies and identities, some of the most outstanding actors of the revolts were women and LGBT individuals who have been suffering from state oppression as gendered bodies. The Gezi Park occupation not only enabled them to experience new forms of mobilization but also altered the perception of gender on a greater scale during the revolts. Starting with an overview of the driving forces of the Gezi Park riots, this paper focuses on this practice of mobilization and the question of how gendered bodies could build a collective identity through the immediate moments of solidarity via reclaiming public space as politicized bodies during the revolts. It also addresses the potential ways in which these newly learnt strategies can be used for the future politics. These inquiries draw on our personal observations and oral testimonies of the protestors in interviews. Lastly, it hopes to provoke further discussions about the future politics of gender activism in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Keshavarz, Mahmoud, Editor, Schultz, Tristan, Editor, J.S. Vieira de Oliveira, Pedro, Editor, Prado de O. Martins, Luiza, Editor, Abdulla, Danah, Editor, Ansari, Ahmed, Editor, Kiem, Matthew, Editor, and Canlı, Ece, Editor
Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum.
Subjects
Humanities and the Arts, Arts, Design, Humaniora och konst, Konst, Other Humanities, Other Humanities not elsewhere specified, Annan humaniora, Övrig annan humaniora, decolonization, coloniality, design studies, design history, Kulturantropologi, and Cultural Anthropology
Abstract
After centuries of subaltern and decades of transdisciplinary gestation, decolonial thinking has finally been incorporated into studies of materiality and – though belatedly – cohered as a question that can be posed directly both to and within the field of Design Studies. Some of the questions that come to mind in this formative moment for decolonial thinking in/and/as design include:• What does the endeavor of decolonizing design mean?• What does it mean for design to be thought of in relation to decoloniality and for decoloniality to be thought of in relation to design?• How are ideas and practices of decolonizing design already emerging?• What are its implications within and beyond the field of Design Studies?These questions have brought us – the members of the Decolonising Design (DD) project and research collective – together and have influenced our efforts to build an online platform that supports and promotes thinking by similarly interested design scholars.
