Understood not merely in relation to its applied and technological facets, but rather as a powerful ontological tool capable of transforming the social and cultural reality, and modeling human experience, subjectivity and life style, and environment and social events, design is clearly one of the spheres in which ontology, epistemology and axiology intersect in a dynamic and creative way. Design in/by the Global South seen through a decolonial lens critically engages with issues of temporal-spatial coloniality and the corpo-political and geopolitical dimensions of knowledge, being and perception that form the concrete material, and biographical, historical and local/spatial conditions of subjectivity production or design of the self.
Tlostanova, M. (2017) ‘On decolonizing design’, Design Philosophy Papers, 15(1), pp. 51–61. doi:10.1080/14487136.2017.1301017.