Decolonizing Design

Sheehan, Norman W. Design Issues 27, no. 4 (2011): 68–80. Sheehan identifies as an Aboriginal educator and researcher, and an Indigenous Knowledge (IK) academic based in Australia. "Respectful Design" came about from Sheehan's work with the Faculty of Design planning at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne and makes a case for IK playing a central role in the design process.

Light, Ann, Lizette Reitsma, Paul Rodgers, and Tariq Zaman. Design Journal, 22: sup1, (2019): 1555-1570. This article describes a co-design project with indigenous communities, building off of Sheehan's work. "At the core of our findings lies the observation that in order to reach a respectful design space, in which indigenous knowledge is embedded, a shared dialogical space between community and designer is essential." —From the article abstract.

Ansari, Ahmed. In Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices, edited by Tony Fry and Adam Nocek, 1-22. London: Routledge, 2020. Ansari is an assistant professor at New York University at the Integrated Digital Media program, and one of the founding members of the Decolonizing Design Collective. "This chapter takes on a critical assessment of the proliferation of the word 'decolonisation' in contemporary design discourse in the Anglo-European sphere...I attempt to bring back attention to the question of 'who speaks' about and for decolonisation to resituate and rethink decolonisation with reference to one's local landscapes and histories." —From the chapter abstract.

Abdulla, Danah, Ahmed Ansari, Ece Canli, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Matthew Kiem, Pedro Oliveira, Luiza Prado, and Tristan Schultz. Journal of Futures Studies 23, no. 3 (March 2019): 129-131. The authors are members of the Decolonising Design Group.

Abdulla, Danah, Ahmed Ansari, Ece Canli, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Matthew Kiem, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Tristan Schultz, and Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira. Design and Culture 10, no. 1 (January 2018): 81-101. "This roundtable was conducted by the eight founding members of the Decolonising Design Group in October 2017. It covers a variety of topics such as "politics of design, artificiality, modernity, Eurocentrism, capitalism, Indigenous Knowledge, pluriversality, continental philosophy, pedagogy, materiality, mobility, language, gender oppression, sexuality, and intersectionality." —From the article abstract.

Tlastanova, Medina. Design Philosophy Papers 15, issue 1 (2017): 51-61. Medina Tlastanova is a professor of postcolonial feminism at Linköping University in Sweden. "Design is regarded in the article as an ontological instrument that is able to transform the social and cultural reality, and model human experience, subjectivity and environment. I focus on the intersections between Tony Fry’s understanding of ontological design and the decolonial interpretation of modernity/coloniality as an overall design determining relation between the world, the things and the humans."—From the article abstract.

Ansari, Ahmed. XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students - Global Cultures and Computing 26, no.2 (Winter 2019): 16-19. "A closer attention to cultural and cosmological difference as the basis for thinking about how we redesign our own modern technological infrastructures may be the way to decolonize design research." —From the article abstract.