Repository logo
 

Pluriversal futures for design education

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorNoel, Lesley-Ann
dc.contributor.authorRuiz, Adolfo
dc.contributor.authorvan Amstel, Frederick M. C.
dc.contributor.authorUdoewa, Victor
dc.contributor.authorVerma, Neeta
dc.contributor.authorBotchway, Nii Kommey
dc.contributor.authorLodaya, Arvind
dc.contributor.authorAgrawal, Shalini
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-06T21:36:59Z
dc.date.available2025-06-06T21:36:59Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe Future of Design Education working group on pluriversal design—with members from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, South and Southeastern Asia, North America, Oceania, and Europe—developed recommendations for higher education design curricula. The group addresses the dominance of a Eurocentric design canon and worldwide colonization by a twentieth-century design monoculture grounded in the concept of universal human experience. Curricular recommendations honor Indigenous worlds and place-based ways of being, and chime with anthropologist Arturo Escobar’s premise that every community practices the design of itself, through participatory processes that are independent of experts. The authors posit that rather than a Cartesian rationalist perspective, the group advocates a relational view of situations in which the design responses to interdependent natural, social, economic, and technical systems, are specific to places and cultures. The recommendations assert a pluriversal design imperative in which multiple worldviews thrive and diverse lived experiences inform the entire field, as well as individual projects.
dc.identifier.citationNoel, L., Ruiz, A., van Amastel, F. M. C., Udoewa, V., Verma, N., Botchway, N. K., Lodoya, A., & Agrawal, S. (2023). Pluriversal futures for design education. She-Ji: Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 9(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2023.04.002
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2023.04.002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3959
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectpluriverse
dc.subjectpluriversal design
dc.subjectontological design
dc.subjectrelationality
dc.subjectlived experience
dc.subjectdecolonizing design
dc.titlePluriversal futures for design educationen
dc.typeArticle

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
1-s2.0-S2405872623000370-main.pdf
Size:
320.89 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Department of Design