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Notes
1. By decolonial thinking – or decoloniality – we refer to epistemic and ontic detachment from Western modernity and, by extension, from Anglo-Eurocentrism, imperialism, and global capitalism. A particular source of insight has been Frantz Fanon Citation(1952) 1986.
2. As per Anne-Marie Willis (Citation2006, 70), ontological design is “a way of characterizing the relation between human beings and lifeworlds. … we design, that is to say, we deliberate, plan and scheme in ways which prefigure our actions and makings – in turn we are designed by our designing and by that which we have designed (i.e., through our interactions with the structural and material specificities of our environments).”
3. Modernity/Coloniality Project refers to the articulation put by Walter Mignolo (Citation2011a).
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Notes on contributors
Tristan Schultz
Tristan Schultz is an Aboriginal and Australian designer, strategist, and researcher examining intersections between decolonial thinking, ontological design, and sustainability. He holds a B. Design, M. Design Futures (Hons) and is a PhD Candidate, a lecturer in the Design Program at QCA, Griffith University, and founder of the design practice Relative Creative. [email protected]
Danah Abdulla
Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator, and researcher. Her research explores design cultures and possibilities of design education in the Arab world. She is a Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Design Management and Cultures at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. [email protected]
Ahmed Ansari
Ahmed Ansari is a doctoral candidate in Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently working on reconstructing a South Asian philosophical genealogy of technics, and tracing histories of design education in Pakistan. He teaches seminar courses in systems thinking, critical and cultural theory, and philosophy of technology at CMU. [email protected]
Ece Canlı
Ece Canlı is a design researcher and artist, investigating the relationship between body politics and material practices from a decolonial queer feminist point of view. She recently completed her PhD in the Design program at University of Porto, fully funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). [email protected]
Mahmoud Keshavarz
Mahmoud Keshavarz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Parsons School of Design and University of Gothenburg. He is the author of The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility and Dissent, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. [email protected]
Matthew Kiem
Matthew Kiem is a Sydney-based designer, researcher, and educator. He has recently completed his PhD at Western Sydney University on the topic of the Coloniality of Design. His thesis examines the meaning of ontological designing in light of decolonial thinking, with a particular interest in the settler colonial dynamics of Australia. [email protected]
Luiza Prado de O. Martins
Luiza Prado de O. Martins is a Brazilian researcher and artist. Her work looks at questions of gender, technology, and the body. She is one half of the artistic research duo “A Parede” and holds a PhD in Design Research from the University of the Arts Berlin. [email protected]
Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira
Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira is a Brazilian researcher and artist in sound studies. He holds a PhD in Design Research from the University of the Arts Berlin, and is one half of “A Parede.” [email protected]
