Coloniality Of Making

Who designs the designer? An anticolonial response to the world that design us back

Souza, Eduardo A. B. M., Saito, Carmem, Van Amstel, Frederick M. C., Gonzatto, Rodrigo Freese. (forthcoming). Who designs the designer? An anticolonial response to the world that design us back. Proce

Coloniality of Making in Design Philosophy

Prospective design: A structuralist design aesthetic founded on relational qualities

Botter, F., van Amstel, F. M. C., Mazzarotto Filho, M., and Guimarães, C. (2024) Prospective design: A structuralist design aesthetic founded on relational qualities, in Gray, C., Hekkert, P., Forlano

Anticolonial prospects for overcoming the coloniality of making in design

Saito, C., Freese Gonzatto, R., and van Amstel, F. (2024) Anticolonial prospects for overcoming the coloniality of making in design, in Gray, C., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. (eds.), DRS2

Decolonizing design research

Van Amstel, F. M. C. (2023). Decolonizing design research. In: Rodgers, Paul A. and Yee, Joyce (Eds). The Routledge Companion to Design Research (pp. 64-74). Routledge. https://www.doi.org/10.4324/978

El hacer como quehacer: notas para un diseño libre

En América Latina, la colonialidad del hacer nos impide valorar lo que ya hemos hecho y, a partir de ahí, hacer lo que hay que hacer. A menudo preferimos importar el diseño europeo en lugar de constru

Diseño y la colonialidad del hacer

Keynote addressed at the 13th International Conferences on Design History and Studies, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, October 2022. Resumen: La colonialidad del hacer se refiere a las rela

Decolonizing whatever-centered design

Centralization is a spatial practice used by human collectives for thousands of years. It started in the archaic definition of village leaders and evolved to world empires, including their corollary t