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InterDesigning Report


2023- 2025
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Livia Rezende, Nicola St John, Fanny Suhendra and Diana Albarrán González, as the InterDesigning Network


Introduction


Through gatherings, workshops and publications the InterDesigning team promote the formation of a network of like-minded educators and practitioners to encourage more diverse ways of designing and the inclusion of varied voices in design. The network’s strength lies in the relationships fostered among design practitioners and academics across the Asia Pacific region and Global South geographies.

Higher Education Institutions in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have a high number of culturally diverse students from the neighbouring regions who learn alongside local settler-migrant and Indigenous students. All learning and teaching happens on Indigenous lands. However, design and design history courses taught in these institutions remain entrenched in anglo- and euro-centric narratives that omit place-specific contexts, local histories and knowledges, and diverse ways of designing, including those by the various Indigenous peoples across Oceania. To address the persistence of colonisation in design education and counter the alienation and disengagement experienced by a student body who seldomly see their cultures represented in design courses, The InterDesigning team proposed the formation of a InterDesigning network in 2022.

As the InterDesigning team, we value collaboration, not top-down leadership and are open to experimentation and trying ideas. Our diverse experience as female and/ or migrant academics and designers support our vision for building international connections between educational institutions and communities in creative ways. These connections increase understanding between diverse cultural and social educational contexts and help us engage with a range of separate yet related questions on how to co-create decolonial, pluriversal, and intersectional voices, materials, themes, and approaches within our disciplines. The InterDesigning team seek to create space for diverse voices in design and connections between educators who want to share experiences of trying, failing and succeeding to implement approaches to positionality, locality, and plurality in the classroom. The InterDesigning network strives to be a home for histories, perspectives, and practices of design that have been—and often remain—underrepresented within dominant design dialogues and university curricula across the region. We are excited by the opportunity to continue developing this important and impactful network.

You can read the full report here.




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.
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