Decolonizing Design

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

Transdisciplinarity is transgression or it is not

Throughout the 20th century, there were many attempts to make design into a single and unified discipline, similar to (or even engulfing) architecture. These efforts failed as new design disciplines k

Systemic userism in service design

Abstract: Userism in service design manifests as a group of humans reduced to be users (and only users) of a given service. Userism prevents these people from cocreating, codesigning, and coproducing

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

Prospecting anti-colonial qualities in Design Education

Mazzarotto. M., Van Amstel. F. M. C., Serpa, B. O., Silva, S. B. (2023). Prospecting anti-colonial qualities in Design Education. V!RUS Journal, 26, 135-143. Translated from Portuguese by Giovana Blit

Pluriversal Futures for Design Education

Noel, L.-A., Ruiz, A., van Amstel, F. M. C., Udoewa, V., Verma, N., Botchway, N. K., Lodaya, A., & Agrawal, S. (2023). Pluriversal Futures for Design Education. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economic

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