The Future of Design Education working group on pluriversal design—with members from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, South and Southeastern Asia, North Oceania, Europe—developed recommendations for higher education design curricula. addresses dominance a Eurocentric canon worldwide colonization by twentieth-century monoculture grounded in concept universal human experience. Curricular honor Indigenous worlds place-based ways being, chime with anthropologist Arturo Escobar's premise...

Can design education have a positive impact on primary school beyond merely preparing designers? As designers, we know almost intuitively that is 'good education', and most designers would affirm it be beneficial to expose children education, because of the benefits signature pedagogies design, such as problem-based learning, human centred creativity iterations prototyping testing. This paper seeks review synthesize existing literature make preliminary analyses, which will support...

The design community has made several calls to re-imagine a education for the future. Here I share series of visual representations guiding principles curricula that respond these calls. These sketches were created over years, exploring visually different objectives curricula. In doing drawings, wrestle with my own urge break away from Ulm-inspired youth. often inspired by other images, as reflected on contexts: needs people in Global South and most "vulnerable" countries (as defined United...

Background Health inequalities are rooted in historically unjust differences economic opportunities, environment, access to health care services, and other social determinants. Owing these inequalities, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected underserved populations, notably people of color, incarcerated formerly individuals, those unable physically distance themselves from others. However, most strongly impacted by disparities, pandemic, not frequently engaged research, either...

Emancipatory research is a perspective of producing knowledge that can be benefit to disadvantaged people. It an umbrella term include many streams critical theory based such as feminist, disability, race and gender theory. One the key assumptions in emancipatory there are multiple realities, not only created by ‘dominant or elite researcher’. Given development branches design inclusive design, participatory for social innovation, where designer interacts with designs people who may...

Vestiges of the curricula at Bauhaus and Hochschule, Ulm, former designed in 1920s, latter created 1950s, can still be seen design around world. These focused on craft were very tied to large industrial economies. More traditional born out graphic product or design. The community has placed several calls re-imagine a future education. This contribution shares sketches driven by pluriversal issues, epistemologies ontologies, not as recreation what already existed. explorations created, over...

This special edition introduces eight papers at the intersec­tion of design, oppression, and liberation. These refer to social struc­ture as a common leverage point criticize transform different oppres­sion relations, namely racism, gender, marginalization, epistemic injustice, colonization. The contributions follow recent moves in movements sciences that recognize tackling oppression relations enables seeing oppressive structures more clearly. Nurturing solidarity bonds across struggles...

UX designers and practitioners acknowledge users' different skills try to address their needs design better products experiences. As HCI educators, we searched for tools help our students recognize that they might have perspectives from the users will be designing for, generating bias assumptions in process. Positionality refers personal social constructs define identity, shaping how see interpret world around us, as well way sees interprets us. Practicing positionality education is a...

With increased awareness and mindful decisions, digital designers can repair the harm caused by design improve online experience of individuals who have been previously marginalized. This poor well-intentioned or out ignorance, is necessary in a world where technology, exclusion, trauma are pervasive. article provides examples that must acknowledge, understand, avoid recreating. The concept trauma-informed explained along with two practical approaches for to use become more trauma-informed,...

This article highlights a study in which critical pedagogy was introduced through design thinking strategies to primary school students rural Trinidad and Tobago. By encouraging interactive discussions between instructors, the overarching objective achieved. In order build students’ awareness, agency empowerment, during three weeks summer camp, instructors engaged actively, repeated dialogues concerning student rights, media bias, change, utopian ideas for better future. As process unfolded,...

El papel del diseño en la estructuración de opre­sión ha sido gran medida desconocido por investigación y historia diseño. Sin embargo, podemos ver un movimiento reciente, impulsado los movimientos sociales, que reconoce complicidad con diversas formas opresión. Reconocer el opresivo abre posibilidad ocupar, reclamar, reparar restaurar lo opresores han hecho él. Algunos enfoques hacen investiga­ción pase denuncia al anuncio nuevas realidades. De no hacerlo, podría prevalecer fatalismo, aun...

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What is Pluriversal Design? We believe it a form of design that aims to nurture and highlight multiple ways world-making create conditions for worlds flourish. The concept the pluriverse challenges one pillars Western Modernity universalism—the idea we all live in single world—in favor multiplicity possible (Kothari et al. 2019). Since 16th century, world's history has been told from point view voices people Europe and, subsequently, English-speaking North-America (Global North).

This article describes the conversation and process between two Caribbean design educators, one from Puerto Rico, Trinidad Tobago, as they co- developed an appropriate class for students who were experiencing a catastrophic event. The curriculum built on curriculum, by latter children in rural village English-speaking that focussed promoting equity empowerment through reflections critical discussions participants. was adapted former, using her resilience thinking toolbox with undergraduate...