Deconstructing Spaces and Places of Coloniality: A Local Design Pedagogy Walk

How does coloniality thinking impact the designs that shape our surroundings? To explore this question and others we will undertake a derive walk – an unplanned walk around Berlin to uncover how coloniality continues to underpin how design is conceived, taught, and practiced. Starting from the Haus Bastian, the Centre for Cultural Education we will collectively question how our environment, from the trees planted and weeds destroyed to the shape of rooms and local shops, have been designed through a colonial lens and how that creates norms that continue to impact design education.