This roundtable was conducted by the eight founding members of Decolonising Design
Group in October 2017, using an online messaging platform. Each member approached …

The aim of this essay is to contribute to the development of a paradigmatic shift in how
design is understood, transformed and practiced in the Global South. It does this by …

Abstract Design is regarded in the article as an ontological instrument that is able to
transform the social and cultural reality, and model human experience, subjectivity and …

Much of the academic and professional discourse within the design disciplines over the last
century has been bereft of a critical reflection on the politics of design practice, and on the …

Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in
creating, perpetuating, promoting and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political …

Decolonizing discourses teach us that we need to move away from the universalizing 'grand
narratives' of knowledge production and focus on contextualizing diverse and situated …

Decolonizing design through the perspectives of cosmological others: Arguing for an
ontological turn in design research and prac Page 1 16 feature XRDS • WINTER 2019 • VOL.26 …

A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the
long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. From the …

Highlights•A decolonial design approach responding to challenges of decolonial design
practices.•The concept of safe space provides a new way of working in a contested …

Participatory Design (PD) approaches are particularly well-suited to contribute to
contemporary debates of decolonisation in design due to PD's long-standing political …