
QUESTIONS/THEMES
+ What is colonial about design?
+ How do we unsettle coloniality in individuals and in institutions?
+ How are postcoloniality, decoloniality and anti-coloniality different and similar?
+ How have current development models been calibrated by colonial infrastructure?
READINGS DISCUSSED THUS FAR
A Brah and Annie Coombes, Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture.2005
Arnold, David. Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity. 2015.
Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership, Global and Insurgent Legalities 2018.
Cadena, Marisol de la, and Mario Blaser, eds. A World of Many Worlds. 2018.
Dutta, Arindam. The Bureaucracy of Beauty. 1st edition. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. 2003.
Kusno, Abidin. Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space, and Political Cultures in Indonesia.2000.
Singh, Jyotsna G., and David D. Kim, eds. The Postcolonial World. 2016.
Teverson, A., and S. Upstone. Postcolonial Spaces: The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture.2011.