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This book draws on Indigenous knowledges, methodologies and methods, presenting concepts of decolonising and Indigenous design interweaved as theory, storytelling, and practices. Useful for students and scholars of design, art, architecture, culture, decolonising methodologies, biocultural diversity, and design beyond human and materiality.
List of contents
Part 1: Ways of being 1. My journey: Navigating cultural identity and engaging with this book 2. Indigenous worldviews, cosmology, and knowledges 3. Indigenous design: Indigenous-led design practice, Country/Mother Earth and relational-centred design
Part 2: Ways of knowing and doing 4. Decolonising design practice: Indigenous led in partnership with respectful non-Indigenous people and allies 5. Critical co-Design, guidelines, and Biocultural Workshop 6. Biocultural Workshop case study 7. Indigenous design practices
Part 3: Ways of (Co)becoming 8. Relational design: A way of being, knowing, doing and (co)becoming Afterword: My learning journey and my way of becoming
About the author
Desiree Hernandez Ibinarriaga is a Mexican woman with Nahua, Mayan, Basque, and Spanish heritage. Desiree is a creative practitioner, collaborative, and social design maker and thinker. She is a Senior Lecturer at Monash Art, Design and Architecture, part of the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab cohort, and Coordinator for Indigenous Higher Degrees by Research. She has over 14 years of experience in the design field across diverse disciplines, such as sustainability, co-design, social, furniture, interior, decolonial, and Indigenous design. Desiree's work focuses on better ways of partnership and communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through design, by recognising the relationality between people and Place while privileging Indigenous knowledges.
Summary
This book draws on Indigenous knowledges, methodologies and methods, presenting concepts of decolonising and Indigenous design interweaved as theory, storytelling, and practices. Useful for students and scholars of design, art, architecture, culture, decolonising methodologies, biocultural diversity, and design beyond human and materiality.
