Resources
Resources
2023 Symposium
Co-creating the Praxis of Teaching Decolonial, Intersectional and Pluriversal Design and Histories: an InterDesigning Symposium2023 Conference
Thriving Futures ACUADS Conference2023 Conversation
DRS Learn x Design Conversation:Interalities: a conversation on positionalities, localities, pluralities within design education futures
2024 Research Paper
Towards Co-creating the Praxis of Teaching Design from Decolonial, Intersectional and Pluralversal ApproachesDRS Learn x Design Conference: Interalities: a conversation on positionalities, localities, pluralities within design education futures
St John, N., Rezende, L. L., Suhendra, F., Albarran Gonzalez, D., & Ahmed, Z. (2024). Interalities: a conversation on positionalities, localities, pluralities within design education futures. LearnXDesign 2023.
Across Australasia, design courses within the tertiary education sector continue to remain entrenched in euro-centric narratives and pedagogical approaches, which in turn omit place-specific contexts, cultural histories, knowledges, and diverse ways of designing. In response, we are a collective of design educators working across the Asia-Pacific region, who have come together to de-link from the dominance of Western design education, to unpack the intersections between pluriversality, decoloniality and intersectionality within our own teaching practices. We each have our own relations to these alities, and our conversation begins from drawing out our individual positionalities, shaping how we see and interpret the world around us. Practising positionality as design educators is a meaningful way to reflect on our own inter spaces, and how they inform our teaching approaches, while also acting to facilitate discussion around common experiences and challenges. Our conversation enables an acknowledgement of our individual lived experiences, insights, and knowledges, while collectively grappling with shared concerns. We hope through discussing our own efforts, we can encourage other educators to join us in creating more diverse design education futures.
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InterDesigning pays our respect to Elders, Ancestors and Traditional Custodians of the lands where this network was conceived; Wurundjeri, Woi Wurrung, Boon Wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nations, Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation, and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki iwi (tribes). We also pay respects to our own ancestors and acknowledge how they have shaped the stories and knowledges we share here.