Anticolonial prospects for overcoming the coloniality of making in design

Artigo apresentado e publicado em 2024 nos anais do evento DRS2024.

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SAITO, Carmem; GONZATTO, Rodrigo Freese ; VAN AMSTEL, Frederick M. C. Anticolonial prospects for overcoming the coloniality of making in design. In: DRS2024 (Design Research Society). Boston. Boston, USA, 2024. p. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.255

ABSTRACT

Design has been instrumental in preserving the coloniality of making – a set of ideological, cultural, political, market and relational processes that operate to identify, categorise and hierarchise different making practices that benefit the metropolises at globalised production structures. This paper presents a theoretical examination of the coloniality of making based on the anticolonial scholarship of the Design & Oppression Network. The examination proceeds with three prospective studies to overcome this form of coloniality in fashion, interaction, and graphic design. The first part of each study denounces how design reproduces the hierarchy between intellectual and manual labour and justifies class, gender, race, technology, international geopolitics and further oppressive hierarchies. The second part announces the possibilities for reconnecting manual and intellectual labour while designing alter/native ways of being and living together.

SUMÁRIO

1. Introduction
2. Coloniality of making
2.1 Historical inequalities in world-making
3. Prospective studies
3.1 Hand-making in fashion design
3.2 User organising in interaction design
3.3 Anthropophagy in graphic design
4. Discussion