Design Education
![Institutional Frictions](/content/images/2022/04/Hero_SchoolsStruugles.jpg)
#Feminist Curricula
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
![A Designerly Inventory](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Danah-2.jpg)
#Designing Resistance
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
![A Critical Statement](/content/images/2022/02/Hero_Shophie1-1.jpg)
#Making and Unmaking
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
![Teach What You Need to Learn](/content/images/2022/04/Hero_BJM.jpg)
#Feminist Curricula
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Teach What You Need to Learn
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
![The Last Shift](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Maya.jpg)
#Feminist Curricula
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The Last Shift
Field notes from La Entrega Final, or how feminist activism plays itself in the Chair of Gender and Design at FADU, Buenos Aires.
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![The Interlocality of Typography](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Rachel.jpg)
#Politics of Display
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The Interlocality of Typography
A conversation with Yu Jiwon about the suggestions of typographic diversity in society and culture.
![Learning from the Vernacular](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Clara.jpg)
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
![Learning from the Vernacular](/content/images/2021/06/Hero_Clara_new.jpg)
#Pedagogies of Freedom
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
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![Long Nights](/content/images/2021/06/Heroalt.jpg)
#Complaint Collective
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Long Nights
Do art universities educate students to exploit themselves? Short answer: Yes.
![Long Nights](/content/images/2021/06/Heroalt.jpg)
![A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Floriane.jpg)
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
![A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?](/content/images/2021/03/Hero-final2.jpg)
#Pedagogies of Freedom
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
![Glowing Red Letters](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Katharina.jpg)
#Complaint Collective
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
![Glowing Red Letters](/content/images/2021/03/IMG_2212-copy.png)
#Complaint Collective
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
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![Disrupting Design with Capital “D”](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Luana.jpg)
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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.
![Disrupting Design with Capital “D”](/content/images/2021/02/hero_tessel5.jpg)
#Pedagogies of Freedom
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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.
![Oh, Dear Diversity](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Dorsa.jpg)
#Complaint Collective
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
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![Oh, Dear Diversity](/content/images/2021/02/Dorsa.png)
#Complaint Collective
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
![Histories Neglected by History](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Ghalia.jpg)
#Against the Grain
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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.
![Histories Neglected by History](/content/images/2021/01/Hero_Bayn.jpg)
#Against the Grain
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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.
![Against Performative Positivity](/content/images/2021/01/Illustration_solid-color.png)
#Designing Resistance
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.
![Against Performative Positivity](/content/images/2021/01/Illustration_solid-color.png)
#Designing Resistance
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.
![Soul Consuming](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Corin.jpg)
#Voices
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
![Soul Consuming](/content/images/2021/01/hero-img_ann.jpg)
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
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![Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_DDG.jpg)
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) the Decolonising Design group.
![Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way](/content/images/2020/12/hero-img_ddg-2.jpg)
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) the Decolonising Design group.
![Diversity Issues](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_DiversityIssues.jpg)
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
![Diversity Issues](/content/images/2020/12/hero-img_diversity-issues-1.jpg)
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.