Saludos

Grateful for the the discussion.

“The more serious lacking of the colonized is to be outside of history and
outside of the city." (Memmi, 1966)

Professor Eduardo Corte-Real, saludos cordiales, the buzz word
decolonization is not so in my context, since I live in a colonial
territory.For me is the everyday painful verb.

Its been my experience that postcolonial methods and theories have been
playing a large role in design practice and its education, as well as in
design research.

The methods employed in data collection and analysis for design research,
as well as the theories that inform them, had to build a decolonized
epistemological and ontological foundation within my colonized context.

Who owns the research? Who owns the design knowledge? Who chooses the
methods and tools for inquiry? Who chooses the language to spreading the
new knowledge? Smith (1999) identifies these questions as the act of
‘colonizing knowledge’ and ‘colonizing the disciplines.

It is a complex problem, a moving train with no driver, and yes, still in
the contemporary design practice, globally, there is a presence of the
monolithic text that affect both research, education and the practice
itself.

Profesor Fernando Alberto Álvarez Romero, saludos cordiales, parafraseando
a Memmi y a Fanon, la maquina es puntual, la situación colonial crea al
colonizado y el colonizador. Pero hay una diferencia muy grande,
alineándome con usted, entre un dato histórico a una experiencia de
vivencia.

Maria de Mater O'Neill
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Ref
Fanon, F. The Wretched of the Earth, Grove Press: New York, 1963.
Memmi, A., Retrato del colonizado, Buenos Aires, 1966,p.102.
Smith, L. (1999). Decolonising methodologies: Research and indigenous
people. London: Zed Books.

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