Juan Pablo Aschner Rosselli, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Alma Sarmiento Jaramillo
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Abstract
This article explores decoloniality and creative education in the Global South, focusing on integrating art, architecture, design, and traditional practices into contemporary educational frameworks. It highlights the benefits of incorporating local traditions and environmental principles into curricula through literature reviews, interviews, and case studies from the Americas, Africa, and Asia, promoting cultural diversity and social justice. The article critiques colonial power dynamics and suggests a more inclusive, interdisciplinary approach. It addresses challenges faced by marginalized communities, proposing strategies for universities to develop equitable and culturally responsive pedagogies. The study underscores the importance of context in creativity, advocating for curricular reforms that include educators from the Global South to foster cultural sensitivity and promote social change.
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Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.
Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.