The class will examine the rise of the decolonizing design discourse, which has received increased attention since 2018, defined as “a radical rather than reformist project, organized less around a struggle for the inclusion and representation of difference and marginality within colonial forms, than around the unsettlement and destabilization of forms … that instill colonial relations of power.” (Schultz et al, 2018). We will look at seminal texts on decolonization and decoloniality by authors such as Aníbal Quijano, Arturo Escobar, Walter Mignolo, Catherine Walsh, Madina Tlostanova, Nelson Maldonado Torres, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. In parallel, we will explore the approaches of design practitioners and design studies scholars who align with the movement, including those of Indigenous designers and scholars from various parts of the world. This includes the work of Dori Tunstall, Leslie Ann Noel, Manuhuia Barcham, and the Decolonizing Design group. Our purpose is to understand the continuities and discontinuities between different disciplinary efforts to decolonizing and the particular contributions of design to this discourse. Additionally, we will work collectively or in groups to apply a decolonizing framework through or within design education and practice.