What we’ll do:
ꕥ Time to share learnings, questions, happenings with the group
ꕥ Article reading: Disciplinary Disobedience: A Border-Thinking Approach to Design, from the publication DESIGN STRUGGLES: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives (page 227) by Danah Abdulla.
Here are a few questions to help us start our discussion for next week's article reading chat and to bring to your everyday practice:
ꕥ What would a borderless design practice look and feel like for you? What would it look and feel like collectively?
ꕥ Where have you noticed that the boundaries between design specializations have blurred?
ꕥ What skills can designers cultivate to move away from serving industry towards serving society?
For those of you who couldn’t make it to March’s in-person gathering, this is another opportunity to engage with work from Danah. Register by Wednesday, April 10 to get the chapter and discussion prompts!
About the Author
Danah Abdulla is a Palestinian designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the discipline. She is the Head of Graphic Design at Camberwell, Chelsea, and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, University of the Arts London (UAL). She has previously held positions at Brunel University London and London College of Communication (University of the Arts London). Danah obtained her Ph.D. in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London and is a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform, and founded Kalimat Magazine (2010-2016), an independent, non-profit publication about Arab thought and culture. Her research focuses on decolonizing design, possibilities of design education, design culture(s) with a focus on the Arab region, the politics of design, publishing, and social design. Her first book Designerly Ways of Knowing: A Working Inventory of Things a Designer Should Know was published by Onomatopee (2022). She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region (Bloomsbury, 2024).