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Opening up our Gated Community
2020
Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers
unpublished
Teaching design in a non-Western culture makes one vaguely aware of its embedded cultural and technological determinants, such as the machine aesthetic or mass production techniques and materials. When this is juxtaposed against local design traditions and cultures of practice -many of which pre-date post-war Europe -these 'normalisations' become glaringly self-evident. Design education in the non-Western context, therefore, becomes more an acculturation project (along with its shadow,
doi:10.21606/pluriversal.2020.023
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