Decolonising Design Education: Between Care, Change and Collapse

Date & Time

Jan. 23, 2026, 8 a.m. - Jan. 23, 2026, 9 a.m.

Cost

$0

Location

Online

Organizer

DRS Education SIG

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Description

This talk presents my doctoral research on decolonising design education, examining how care, change and collapse can shape possibilities.

Through workshops with students and dialogues with educators of colour, the study interrogates the persistence of Eurocentric curricula while uncovering spaces for structural and pedagogical change. Employing Artefactual Speculative Co-Storying (ASC), the research stages imaginative encounters that make alternative futures tangible, bridging critique and creativity. The presentation introduces the change/collapse framework and the six commitments of a Decolonial Design Framework, showing decolonisation as an ongoing, relational practice of world-making.