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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Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Grafico

Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Grafico centers the work and histories of art and design in Latin America. From a Latinx diasporic perspective, we look at the pluralistic work that comes out of the diverse cosmologies, perspectives, and points of...

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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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Incomplete Latinx Stories Corporate License

Incomplete Latinx Stories Corporate License

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Incomplete Latinx Stories Education License

Incomplete Latinx Stories Educational Licensex