Decoloniality and depatriarchising in design: What deficits can be identified in today's design education and which tools can be identified as possible answers? Nina Paim, designer and co-founder of Common-Interest, a non-commercial research studio, discusses with Christian Zöllner the urgent problems and questions that design education has to face in the 21st century, curatorial working and platform building, the importance of language in this context as well as the approaches of Common-Interest.

#decoloniality #depatriarchising #designeducation

Nina Paim is a Brazilian designer, researcher and curator based in Switzerland. After an detour into economics and philosophy, she completed her graphic design studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and at the HKB Bern, Switzerland, with a master's degree in design research. As guest curator of the 26th Design Biennale Brno, Nina conceived and designed the exhibition Taking a Line for a Walk, on the subject of tasks in design education. She has taught and lectured at many different places and in many countries. Since 2018 she has been co-founder of the non-commercial design research studio Common-Interest.

Related links:

→ BURG Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

→ Hurra Hurra Festival

→ Nina Paim

→ Common Interest

→ Taking a Line for a Walk – Assignments in design education, Nina Paim

→ Depatriarchise Design

→ Decolonising Design

→ Precarity Pilot

→ Building Platforms