Movement
Decolonial / Pluriversal Design
Explore in the Atlas →Transdisciplinary movement linking Mignolo, Escobar, Fry and Indigenous design-charter work that contests universalist modern design.
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Details
- Origin
- Latin America / Aotearoa / Australia
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceAncestry
- Subject
- More than human
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalCross cultural cosmological
Connections
Referenced by
- Walter Mignolo associated with
- Arturo Escobar associated with
- Tony Fry associated with
Sources
- Duke UP. n.d.. https://www.dukeupress.edu/designs-for-the-pluriverse.
- Tuhiwai Smith, Linda. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books / University of Otago Press, 1999.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Decolonial / Pluriversal Design." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/decolonial-design/. Accessed July 17, 2026.