Design Histories in Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora Education License

Design Histories in Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora Education License

Design Histories in Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora Corporate License

Design Histories in Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora Corporate License

Knowledge Making Against Digital Colonialism

This class will focus on questions of access, knowledge production, and knowledge protection using Digital Colonialism as its methodology. What are the ways we can protect cultural and ancestral knowledge while giving access? How can we turn around power structures...

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Patterns to Freedom

Through the vast landscapes and diverse cultures, Sudan’s rich history is steeped in tradition and tainted with political unrest. Patterns to Freedom covers the historical and cultural significance of design and the influence it had in the context of the...

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The (Arab) Queering of Design Practice

It has taken many years for queer subjects from the SWANA region to be represented in design practice. It has taken even longer for queer voices from the design community to emerge. Marwan Kaabour and Wael Morcos both operate within...

Art is Revolting: Visualizations of Protest in Iran

In their quest for basic human rights, modern-day Iranians are combatting the extreme treatment of a brutal and oppressive regime in a way which mirrors that of their ancestors — through revolt. This lecture highlights the struggle for freedom, women's...

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The ‘Myth’ of Global Design History

Criticised for its lack of diversity, the design history canon has sought to redeem itself by integrating a ‘global’ notion to make up for excluding the histories of nations in the Global South. But what constitutes a global design history...

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Woven in Feminism: Amazigh & Al Sadu Symbols

This lecture discusses feminist craft practices across Morocco and Kuwait—from aesthetic and functional value to political value. The visual language of Amazigh design in rugs is used as a feminist tool of collective memory, resistance, and innovation within an oppressive,...

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Typographic Expression Across Time: From Archives to Contemporary Practices

The course focuses on the significance of incorporating Arab cultural and historical elements into design work, particularly in the field of type design and typography, utilizing the diverse visual archives available. This approach enables designers to produce exceptional works that...

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A History of Arab Graphic Design

Arab graphic design emerged in the early 20th century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and political changes that were taking place in the Arab world at the time. But graphic design...

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Disorientating SWANA: A Journey Through Maps

South to North, East to West, where does SWANA begin, where does it manifest? Maps are more than a neutral representation of Earth; they are flattened, edited, labelled, distributed, and along the way, they are imbued with layers of subjectivities....

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Test Preorder: Design Histories in Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora

Testing: Design Histories in the Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora is a course that highlights the diversity of our communities and puts forward the most vulnerable in our liberation. For the SWANA region, that means...