FROM DESIGN EDUCATOR TO DESIGN FUGITIVE

Is it possible to teach design in higher education in ways that re-centre cultural diversity, all living forms and multiple worlds? Drawing on the concept of Fugitivity by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Tanveer Ahmed’s lecture at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design aims to help design educators move away from and reject elite forms of design taught in higher education, designs shaped by colonial and patriarchal thinking; and, instead locate spaces and possibilities for alternative fugitive forms of design, rooted in anti-racist thinking, autonomy and democracy.

Tanveer Ahmed (pronouns she/her) is a AHRC funded part-time PhD candidate at The Open University, UK and visiting tutor at The Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London. Tanveer has taught fashion design for over 15 years in London and researches ways to expose colonial and patriarchal thinking in fashion design to help generate new alternative forms of anti-racist, post-capitalist thinking and practice in fashion.

Join Tanveer Ahmed’s lecture FROM DESIGN EDUCATOR TO DESIGN FUGITIVE via

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Tanveer Ahmed’s lecture is part of our continuing education program EDUCATING OTHERWISE developed by Mayar El-Bakry, Maya Ober and Laura Pregger – funded by FHNW Aktionsplan Chancengleichheit 2017-2020.