PSDS
3505

Indigenous Methodologies

Parsons School of Design: School of Design Strategies

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Degree Students (with Restrictions)
Indigenous Methodologies
Spring 2027
Taught By: Claudia Tomateo
Section: A

CRN: 17983

Credits: 3

This course examines research as grounded in Indigenous theory, worldviews, and relationships to Land and more-than-human relations. Drawing from Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies across Abya Yala and Turtle Island, students engage frameworks such as relational accountability, comunalidad, desire-based research, Land pedagogies, sumaq kawsay, refusal, Indigenous data sovereignty, and more. The course examines research both within settler colonial institutions such as universities and in forms of knowledge production and education that emerge beyond those borders—within community movements, land-based practices, collective organizing, and intergenerational learning. Through critical readings, radical co-resistance and solidarity, and collaborative design-oriented exercises, students develop a land-based methodological framework for their own projects. Ultimately, the course is an invitation to collectively refuse extractive research practices and to creatively build methods serving radical Indigenous futures.

Open to: All university upper-level undergraduate degree students.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
Co-Requisites: No Co-requisites

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Design Strategies (SDS)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 18

Repeat Limit: N/A

Add/Drop Deadline: February 2, 2027 (Tuesday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 14, 2027 (Wednesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 6:46pm EDT 10/13/2026

Meeting Info:
Days: Monday
Times: 12:10pm - 2:50pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/20/2027 - 5/11/2027