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Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region

by Danah Abdulla
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350295780
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 65.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General and Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

How can we study and teach design in a way that is critical, socially engaged and relevant to place? In this timely book, Danah Abdulla challenges us to imagine a design education and culture that moves beyond blindly borrowing Eurocentric models and frameworks. Drawing on learnings from work with design students, educators and designers in the Arab region, with a particular focus on Jordan and featuring examples from Lebanon, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Abdulla creates a dialogue with those who have most at stake in education to imagine how we can develop a collaborative, contextually based and socially relevant design education.

By first contextualising higher education and design education in the region, and examining the issues and challenges that are pertinent to the development of curricula and pedagogy, such as power, bureaucracy, language and access, Abdulla considers the purpose and relevance of design education in contemporary postcolonial societies. She explores how regional identities and class divisions shape the development of design cultures, as well as different perceptions of design and its value. Abdulla highlights design's role in society and the models of curricula and pedagogy appropriate for developing contextually situated design education. Outlining skills and strategies for equipping future designers, she proposes new possibilities for forms of practice and an actionable framework for developing design education.

Abdulla, Danah: - Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator and researcher. She is Programme Director of Graphic Design at the Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, University of the Arts London, UK. She has previously held positions at Brunel University London, UK and the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK. Danah's research is particularly focused on design education, decolonising design, design culture(s) with a focus on the Arab region, the politics of design, publishing and social design. She holds a Ph.D. in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (2018) and is a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform. In 2010, she founded Kalimat magazine, an independent, non-profit publication about Arab thought and culture.

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