The Pluriversal Future of Design Education

In decolonial academic and popular work and discourse, there is a strong emphasis on decolonization.However, in "postcolonial" times of neocolonialism, decolonization is only the first step on the anticolonial road towards the worlds of our making.Where that anticolonial road leads is full of endless options and possibilities.Using an African Indigenous perspective, we explore the first step of decolonization in design education.Then we explore shifting the center of design education from Americo-Eurocentrism to plural centricities, not centrisms.Americo-Eurocentrism is a totalizing and dominating, colonial ideology while Americo-Eurocentricity is a particularist approach.Lastly, we apply George Dei's idea of an Integrative Indigenous Framework to design education in order to imagine a pluriversal future of design education.(This is part of a paired submission, each "paper" reviewed and accepted independently.This paper is paired with the paper entitled The Decision.They can be read in any order.