Tag: decolonisation
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An enticing subversion: contemporary art and ‘decolonising’ in Malaysia
‘Reframe and Resist: Decolonise Here and Now!’ is a new initiative that seeks to transform the visual arts sector by addressing legacies of colonisation and environmental crisis. Supported with a grant of £10,000 from the British Council under a scheme designed to foster cultural exchange in Southeast Asia, part of its funding programme Connections Through…
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Decolonising Curriculum: A Search for the Middle Path in Design Education
In the last five centuries, curriculum theorisation has been drawn from platforms laid by Western Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies, resulting in the duality of knowledge structures (epistemic privilege and epistemic inferiority) known as Cartesian logic. Hence, the central approach to decolonising curriculum involves a critical analysis of how Cartesian duality has shaped what we know,…