Towards Design Sovereignty

Publisher:
Otago Polytechnic Press
Publication Type:
Chapter
Citation:
The Politics of Design: Privilege & Prejudice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa., 2021, pp. 360-380
Issue Date:
2021
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Over the past few years, Jason De Santolo and Nadeena Dixon have critically posed “Colonisation by Design” as a series of formative lectures in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The conditions surrounding the 2020 lecture series created a space for deeper ‘yarns’ on shifting notions of sovereignty and self-determination for our people. Our reactions vibrated with concern and care for our lands, waters, Elders, kids and communities. If decolonising design education was to have a genuine long-term effect, then the pathways towards “design sovereignty” would have to Indigenise specific local pedagogies by challenging everyday injustices and the impacts of dispossession and state violence. This chapter is a revisionist attempt towards articulating the contextualisation, intent and energy of our shared teaching experiences as a key factor in framing the emergence of an Indigenous-centred research hub that works towards design sovereignty on unceded lands.
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