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What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
Decolonization of industrial design must be the first step in order to make space for Indigenization in industrial design. Indigenizing industrial design allows space for Indigenous Designers to create products and solutions that are rooted in Indigenous Knowledge, for and with their communities. Indigenizing industrial design can help develop gene... See more
brian skeet • WDO | Indigenizing Industrial Design
If you review the historical record, you will see that the people targeted for colonization were self-sufficient, and most often living in harmonious balance with the natural world. After colonization, these same people were reduced to poverty and dependence on the colonizer.
Sherri Mitchell • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Decolonizing the Design Process with Five Indigenous Land-Based Paradigms
canadianarchitect.com
This is a process of decolonization. Whether you are the descendants of colonizers or the colonized—or, like me, both—all of our peoples have experienced the loss of something essential to our liberated well-being. Whether that was taken from you or given away in the bargain to win power, it is loss.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Epistemicide is at the heart of colonization, but we cannot decolonize our minds by unknowing modernity. Like it or not, your belonging is dependent on a reclamation of the dismissed ancient and a reconciliation with the dominant modern.
Sebene Selassie • You Belong: A Call for Connection
That is a shift in purpose that museums have been making for twenty to thirty years and is gaining in momentum, especially as Covid-19 is making deep social inequities widely visible. Post-Covid, it will be all the more important.