This lecture refers to otherness in traditional design and art canons and looks at the invisibility of Latin American/Latinx identities, cosmovisions, and voices in design education, with a focus on the female experience.

Erasure of non-white, non-male, non-western identities and cultures in design and art history and education helps perpetuate abusive and exclusionary design practices, which complicates sustainable, pluriversal, and decolonial design efforts in these regions and those related, such as Latinx communities in the United States and beyond.

As a response, this lecture invites design educators and students to disrupt traditional design canons and histories through visual storytelling, using creative and self-reflective methods to unearth and explore individual and unique knowledges, identities, and lived experiences.

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Latinx Auto-Ethnography in Educational Spaces

This lecture refers to otherness in traditional design and art canons and looks at the invisibility of Latin American/Latinx identities, cosmovisions, and voices in design education, with a focus on the female experience.Erasure of non-white, non-male, non-western identities and cultures in design...

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Otros Susurros Desde los Andes

A typographic-dingbat journey, titled Abya Yala: Visual Chronicles, through the little-known stories of the original cultures that inhabited the Andes. Vanessa Zúñiga develops her design from the semiotic and morphological analysis of the archaeological pieces’ visual signs. Then she translates...

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Funk, Blaxploitation, & Hip Hop Aesthetics

From the bass heavy riffs of Curtis Mayfield’s SuperFly 1973 soundtrack to the scratch and synthesized Brox rhythms of 1970s and 1980s DJ’s like Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash—the histories of Black music and Black design have been intermixed. Many scholars have foregrounded Phase...

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Strikethrough: Typography Messages of Protest for Civil Rights

In the 1960s and 1970s of this country, everyday activists took to the streets with placards in their raised arms with urgent messages made visible in typographic form. This selection of protest graphics will focus on a Black experience. However,...