Dear Johann,
If I may add a footnote to my prior post, there are serious discussions and considerations under the rubric "decolonizing design."
I admire the work that Dori Tunstall is doing in Canada, and I respect many of the efforts that you can read about in this article:
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-cant-the-u-s-decolonize-its-design-education/
There are interesting questions here, and I'm not sure that I fully understand all the work they are doing. Nevertheless, these are serious people doing serious work in constructive ways. I say this based on reading the AIGA article, and based on my personal knowledge of the work Dori did with design anthropology and indigenous design in Australia, as well as with Project Indigo.
One problem with names is that several very different things may carry the same name. I was saddened by the attacks that used the rubric "decolonizing design" to attach people. I am heartened and encouraged by the work going on in Canada and elsewhere under the rubric "decolonizing design."
As the most recent Nobel Laureate in Literature once said about different names and same names,
"You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy
You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy
You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray
You may call me anything but no matter what you say
"You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody."
Dori and her colleagues are serving good ends in civilised and human ways. Their version of decolonizing design invites community rather than corrupt language.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-cant-the-u-s-decolonize-its-design-education/
Warm wishes,
Ken
On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:56:51 +0200, Johann van der Merwe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I have longed to say this ... the decolonisation of design is some of the
>most beautifully corrupted language I have read since being incensed by
>Lyotard and his henchmen, who promised to lift me from my seat of power,
>take that seat himself, and then laugh in my face for being so stupid as to
>fall for the trick ... only, he used the words: "You and yours will say to
>me, that is just".
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