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PAPERS: Counter design: Changing perspectives in design action Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Yekta Bakırlıoğlu, Lancaster University Session Chair: Claudia Garduño García, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana | |
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Who designs the designer? An anticolonial response to the world that design us back 1: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco; 2: Loughborough University London, United Kingdom; 3: Federal University of Technology – Paraná; 4: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná The ontological aspect of designing is commonly defined as a feedforward loop between the world and the designer, as if the world designed us as much as we design it. In this definition, derived from the “everyone is a designer” motto, “everyone” means “we,” but also “no one”. Thus, design philosophy avoids scrutinizing worldly agents interested in designing the designer, understanding the world as a homogeneous force reacting to the designer. A world where many worlds fit isn’t a homogeneous one; therefore, answering “who designs the designer?” from an anticolonial stance requires considering the social production of design(ed) bodies and their historical inequalities in world-making. This paper builds upon Vieira Pinto's question "who produces the producer", and recent research on userism that asks “who gets to design/to be designed”. Thus, this research unveils the worldly dispute for sustaining and dismantling the coloniality of making, including the production of design philosophy. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2410
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