Decolonising Design

Disclaimer: This topic is fairly "new" (popularity in international public discussions: 2016 (Editorial statement Decolonising Design Group from 2016)).
The level of knowledge continues to shift on a weekly basis due to various players.

Ressources around the topic Decolonising Design:

General information

• General definition / statement by the group Decolonising Design↗ 

• Decolonizing Design: what exactly are we talking about when we use the term?↗ | uxdesign.cc 

• Designs for the Pluriverse - Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds↗ | Arturo Escobar

• Design Justice - Community-led practices to build the worlds we need↗ | By Sasha Costanza-Chock 

• What does it mean to decolonize Design?↗ | AIGA Eye on Design 

• California College of the Arts' Decolonial School↗ 

• Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources↗ Very rich open source catalogue about different topics (e.g. "Scripts, xylography and typography, by script and/or region", "Color theory", "Demographics of the design professions, past & present" etc.) 

• The Decolonizers | Jen Wang speaks to some of the practitioners and educators who are decolonizing design.↗ 

• Last Things First: A Manifesto | Arabic Cover Archive | Design Repository↗ 

• Decolonial Design in Practice: Designing Meaningful and Transformative Science Communications for Navakavu, Fiji↗ 

• Decolonial Design Thinking↗ | By Aishwarya Vardhana 

• BIPOC Design History | Resources & Courses↗ 

Typography

• A Resource Hub for Decolonizing Typography↗ | futuress 

• Decolonizing Typography↗ | futuress 

• Non-latin scripts - From metal to digital type↗ 

• Pluralism and Power Dynamics in Indian Design: November Studio↗ | by Somnath Bhatt