Design as a cultural practice and responsible tool: Which challenges does design education has to face with when it comes to critical and political projects? What should designers be aware of in design processes to avoid reproducing stereotypes and what does “Self-Orientalism” mean? In the first episode in english language Imad Gebrayel, creative director and ethnographic researcher, discusses together with professor Christian Zöllner about cultural appropriation, decolonialism, intersections of design and anthropology as well as if design should leave art school. #designeducation #learnability #decoloniality

Imad Gebrayel is a creative director and researcher specializing in identity representation and bilingual visual communication. Thus he aims to initiate a healthier dialogue between cultures, avoiding stereotyping and cultural appropriation starting from design education. He has produced visual and theoretical works around "Self-Orientalism" in Arab design, subjective mapping, and archiving. He also collaborated with several journalistic platforms, exploring common grounds between design and media outlets across Europe. He is currently undertaking ethnographic research on the negotiations of Arab-Muslim postcolonial identifications in the context of Sonnenallee, part of his PhD at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin.

Related links:

→ BURG Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

→ Hurra Hurra Festival

→ Imad Gebrayel

→ Orientalism, Edward Said

→ Everything But the Burden – What White People are Taking from Black Culture, Greg Tate

→ un(FASHION), Maira Kalman