Diana Carolina Garduño Jiménez
Design for
Decoloniality, The pluriverse
Year
2018-2019
Location
Edinburgh
Diana is currently a Food Justice Project Officer with Nourish Scotland, her passion is in supporting people’s participation in the designing of social and environmentally just decolonial food systems. She began this role after completing the Design for Change MA following a BA in Human Geography at the University of Sussex.
Diana’s work is driven by the decolonial concept of the Pluriverse – un mundo donde quepan todos los mundos (a world where many worlds fit), fed by the multiple worlds she has had the opportunity to interact with in Mexico, South Africa, France, Brighton and Scotland.
Insight
What is your favourite part of the D4C programme?
My favourite part is the breaking of the conventional ‘classroom’ and ‘lesson’ format, from having a slow lunch as part of a lecture, to being forced to give up something essential in your life for three days and then write a design proposition in response to what you learned, the programme teaches you by doing.
One book or reading recommendation?
These Wilds Beyond our Fences – Bayo Akomolafe
What area of design are you most interested in?
I am most interested in decolonial design, in critically recognising that we are all designers, that we hold different power dependent on situational dynamics, and that as we design worlds, these design us back. In this area of design, the recognition that there is not just one single way to design, but that multiple ways, emerging in relation to local contexts exist, and this multiplicity is necessary to live in ways that are socially and environmentally sustainable is crucial.
