Global Studio
“ How should we think about, respond to, and reclaim authenticity in education and teaching within the built environment when these practices become expressions of colonial and imperialist strategies?”
In numerous regions worldwide, architecture, planning, and design curricula persist in teaching colonial approaches, often overlooking the significance of everyday local practices in urban development (Kunzmann, 2015; Mehta, 2015; Odendaal, 2012). Through our Global Studio, we seek to pave the way for decolonising pedagogy within the built environment disciplines, fostering pathways toward more equitable futures. Our Global Studio brings together students (different disciplines including architecture, planning, development studies, sociology, anthropology, literature, arts and others) from collaborative partner institutions developing interdisciplinary exercises, workshops, field studies and studio activities to study, understand and develop city imaginations using a decolonial lens. The classroom will be embedded as a part of their existing curriculum, imparting decolonial thinking to future generations encouraging interactive, collaborative and alternative approaches for city futures.
