I love your work. I would encourage you to decolonize your historical pinpointing though. You have a narrow narrative on design.

I know much has been written about the history of design in western history but that doesn’t mean design process and frameworks didn’t and don’t exist in non-Western cultures.

There are amazing examples of co-Design and co-participatory design frameworks in indigenous cultures from Australia to the Americas. Check out Dori Tunstall’s work at OACD in Canada.

I teach design and I’m just tired and frustrated with showing white men as the arbiters of the design process. They are not originators nor inventors. But they’re the face of design. It’s really time to change that. And your work with just a bit more effort could help us get closer to the truth. I know you broaden your design arbiters in the latter paragraphs but when you say “let’s start with the origins,” and the list is from colonized countries it gives the impression that such processes and frameworks didn’t exist before they came along. And the addition of non-western work is someone an “expansion,” of these philosophies rather than original in their own right. I’m not trying to be a witch here. I’m just tired of my culture, my people and their contributions to past, present and future being fuzzy for the rest of the world because they’re glossed over by ignorance. If western culture is all you know then make that disclaimer that’s fair. But no more blanket statements about “this didn’t exist before Europe invented it.” Thanks.