Dear colleagues,
You might also look at the work of the International Committee on Design History and Studies (ICDHS), which has worked on decolonising thinking around design, through historical, theoretical, critical and studies perspectives since 1999. http://www.ub.edu/gracmon/icdhs/ <http://www.ub.edu/gracmon/icdhs/>
The next ICDHS meeting is in Taipei, this October. http://www.dt.ntust.edu.tw/icdhs2016/ <http://www.dt.ntust.edu.tw/icdhs2016/>
As part of the meeting, Yuko Kikuchi and I are convening a roundtable on the politics and practice of ‘doing’ design history and studies within global networks with unequal power flows. Some of our questions for the roundtable:
- How does power operate within design history and design studies today, in our transnational networks?
- What strategies and tools might we use to critically acknowledge inequality and multiple interpretations?
- How might we design a network or exchange mechanism for a transnational scholarly community that does not privilege historical centres, and in doing so polarise and make centre and periphery out of sync?
If anyone is coming to the ICDHS it would be fantastic to see you there.
Best wishes,
Sarah Teasley
Dr. Sarah Teasley
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V&A/RCA History of Design
School of Humanities
Royal College of Art
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> On 28 Jun 2016, at 08:36, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Francois,
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> Good to hear from you.
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> The Decolonising Design <http://www.decolonisingdesign.com/> platform was announced by Luiza, Pedro, Mahmoud, Danah, Ece, Matt, and Tristan as a critique of DRS reviewing being narrow minded, elitist and blinkered. They drew attention to post-colonialism critique and the 'self and other' concepts of phenomenology and philosophy as linked for example with the southern theory of Reawyn Connel (Connell, R. (2007) Southern Theory The global dynamics of knowledge in social science. Cows Nest: Allen & Unwin) and the many previous books on the global south and the north-south divide.
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> The standard approach to addressing post-colonial problems and limitations such as those of DRS' general outlook and its reviewing is to emphasise differences to make clear, e.g. what the board of DRS and its reviewers apparently don't understand. That is, to emphasise the differences between colonisers and colonised, north and south, self/us and other etc.
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> Maharshi's comment is that there is no other. There is only us.
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> It suggests different ways forward for all parties.
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> Best wishes,
> Terry
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> To: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Launching the Decolonising Design platform
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> To Terry and Jinan
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> True, I didn't catch the message of the citation. Would you please elaborate more?
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> Francois
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