Design for/by "The Global South". Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fry, Tony
• Is Part Of: Design philosophy papers. Volume 15:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Global South -- design -- epistemology -- modernity -- Eurocentrism -- colonialism -- decoloniality -- borderland -- globalism -- world -- the Sustainment; Design -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Design -- Periodicals; 745.401
• DOI: 10.1080/14487136.2017.1303242
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1448-7136

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of this essay is to contribute to the development of a paradigmatic shift in how design is understood, transformed and practiced in the Global South. It does this by establishing the case for building a strong contextual relation between design, colonialism, and the mobilised counter-agency of decoloniality. Thereafter, design for/by the Global South is presented within a critical epistemological reframing subordinate to a situated imperative of the 'Sustainment'.