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Committed to Presents: A Break at Attending [to] Futures

  • Dorsa Javaherian (author)
  • Abigail Schreider (author)
Chapter of: Attending [to] Futures: Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, Practice(pp. 73–78)

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TitleCommitted to Presents
SubtitleA Break at Attending [to] Futures
ContributorDorsa Javaherian (author)
Abigail Schreider (author)
Landing pagehttps://adocs.de/en/buecher/design-theorie-praxis-open-accessebooks/attending-futures-matters-politics-design-education-research-practice
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightDorsa Javaherian, Abigail Schreider
Publisheradocs publishing
Published on2023-10-01
Long abstractA few years after graduating from the M.A. program at Köln International School of Design, we, Abigail and Dorsa, revisited our former university to envision Committed to Presents—a roundtable concept at the Attending [to] Futures conference hosted by KISD in 2021. The roundtable invited participants to re- flect on their lived experience as design students. As much as it sparked eagerness to critically engage with design education, the conference’s open call also resonated with questions about our own experiences. How might we contribute to a collective and bottom-up effort to acknowledge the colonial roots and false neutrality of design education? How could we leverage those critical conversations and anchor them at Köln International School of Design? How could we create a legacy of transformation towards a more inclusive design education for future design students? Our heads boiling with these questions, we facilitated conversation between students, alumni, one faculty member, conference speakers, and participants to foster collective reflection, elevate students’ situated knowledge and experiences, and expose entrenched ways of conducting design education in need of reformation.
Page rangepp. 73–78
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Contributors

Dorsa Javaherian

(author)

Dorsa Javaherian (she/her) is an Iranian designer based in Cologne, holding a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from the University of Tehran and a Master’s degree in Integrated Design from Köln International School of Design. Dorsa’s interest lies at the intersections of design, education, inclusion, and community building, and she believes in plural futures. As a designer, she inspires her practice by understanding diaspora experiences and undertaking community building initiatives. Besides pursuing her design career in the corporate environment, she has actively contributed to social innovation work in various grassroots organizations in Cologne.

Abigail Schreider

(author)

Abigail Schreider (she/her) holds a BA in Industrial design from the University of Buenos Aires and a Masters in Integrated design at Köln International School of Design. Originally from Entre Rios, Argentina and now based in Cologne where she works as a service designer. Her work, motivation and struggle lies in bringing discussion to the workplace around issues such as care, diversity, inclusion and belonging. As a designer and immigrant, Abigail navigates between corporate workplaces where critical agendas make their way and academic spaces for research and reflection. This dialogue builds and reflects her daily thinking and doing. She has organized several design jams and is also a member of Hay Futura, a collective of design workers in Argentina.