The Designs of Past Cultures

The objects of unrecognized cultures that have not been included in the cannons of Design history. If one would consider the Benin Kingdom many books should be rewritten.

A documentary series The Tribal Eye. David Attenbough present hidden truths of early societies.

David Adjaye 2021 WORLD BEST ARCHITECT (ROYAL GOLD MEDAL)

"Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures | A talk by Arturo Escobar" (2019)

Link to Lecture and Panel Discussion Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Research Associate with the Culture, Memory, and Nation group at Universidad del Valle, Cali. His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of development, social movements, and technoscience. Over the past twenty-five years, he has worked closely with several Afro-Colombian social movements, particular the Process of Black Communities (PCN). Book: Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

Video: A Chair is More Than a Chair

A new exhibition examines a school renowned for its influence on art and design and the mid-century modern look.

Graphic Design: Introduction to What is it?

The Profession of Industrial Design is Changing

How systems thinking and specialization is helping product designers.

Fashion Design:

LINK: MARTIN MARGIELA - AN ODE TO ANTI-FASHION'S FOUNDING FATHER Martin Margiela is a Belgian fashion designer and the founder of French fashion house Maison Margiela. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1979, a year before the avant-garde fashion collective the Antwerp Six.

Article: The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture

Link to NY Times Article

Architect: June Grant in Her Own Words

Link: blink-lab architecture One of few licensed black female architects in America.