PREMISE
    Colonial contact and influence has shaped the contours, ambitions, and practices of the various fields of design and planning. It has favored the reduction of differences while undermining the asymmetries between centers and peripheries. To query and counter colonial entrenchments within design practices in places that are either developed or developing, this group asks: How might postcolonial and decolonial theory help us expose, analyze, and remediate the colonial inheritances of design theory and practice?

‘Design’ is defined broadly in order to break down disciplinary and institutional jurisdictions while tackling various scales and forms of knowledge practices in the shaping of material worlds. 


Funded by the Institute of Arts and Humanities, UC-San Diego



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XCOLONIAL DESIGN GROUP




ANEːK A Post/Decolonial Design Booklet

Building community across postcolonial and decolonial scholars in various design fields.

৴ Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn’t lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border  Walter D. Mignolo, 2000       

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FA 20 / WI 21
 


READING GROUP

Themed provocations ~ informal discussions

৴ Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings  Edward W. Said, 1993

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FA,WI,SP 2019/20



READING LIST

Live pool of readings

Bien Vivir, in order to be an effective historical realization, cannot be but a complex of social practices oriented towards the democratic production and reproduction of a democratic society, another mode of social existence with its own and specific historical horizon of meanings, radically alternative to the Global Coloniality of Power and the Eurocentred Coloniality/Modernity
Aníbal Quijano, 2010

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SP 2018





GATHERINGS

Working through convening objects and networks ~ Courses ~ Picnics

৴ The question arises, what makes a public “counter?” Is a counterpublic based on a shared marginal identity, or is an expression of counterideologies necessary? What if certain subgroups within a “counterpublic” do not share the same counterideologies or participate in the production of counterdiscourses? Does the label “counterpublic,” in its multiple uses, help us understand the heterogeneity of marginalized groups? ৴ Catherine Squires, 2002

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WI 2018




NETWORKS

Participants, networks, and resources 

৴ Modernity ushered in a relationship between ownership and subjectivity, wherein the latter was defined through and on the basis of one’s capacity to appropriate  Brenna Bhandar, 2018


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