Lecture
Thursday 28 March 2024
Danah Abdulla
Solution Love Affair
QR codes. Cashless societies. Reducing everything to an online service. Phone cases. Keyboard skins. iPads. Lockdowns. Budget airlines. Baggage fees. More policing. Dropping aid from the sky while simultaneously funding war. Our world is one obsessed with damaging short-term solutions, and these are just some of the world’s quick-fix solutions. The fear of asking valid questions and thinking or trying something differently has limited our imagination. Through a series of short reflections, Danah Abdulla delves into her designerly inventory and uses imagination as a method to conjure up more reasonable suggestions to the world’s obsession with short term solutions.
About Danah Abdulla
Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the discipline. She is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Anti/Post/Decolonial Histories, Theories, Praxes at the Decolonising the Arts Institute at University of the Arts London (UAL). Her research focuses on decolonising design, possibilities of design education, design culture(s) with a focus on the Arab region, the politics of design, publishing, and social design.
