The Alberini Family Speaker Series is supported through
an endowment by the Carlos and Andrea Alberini Family Foundation.
It brings renowned innovators and thinkers in design to campus
and in virtual formats to inspire students and encourage
community engagement and learning.
Community Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall, who received her Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1999, is a distinguished design
anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational
design leader, consultant and coach. Tunstall will give a talk
titled “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook” for UC
Davis Department of Design’s Alberini Family Speaker Series in
Design.
The event is April 26 at 4:30-6 p.m. with a reception to
follow at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of
Art. The talk is free and open to the public.
Tunstall will address two aspects of decolonizing design: (1)
putting indigenous first and (2) dismantling the racist bias in
the European modernist project in design. She provides a
framework to understand one’s positionality vis-a-vis indigenous
sovereignty and how that sets conditions for design that provides
liberatory joy to bodies and communities. By showing the racism
inherent in the focus on modernist design as the standard, she
demonstrates in both theory and practice how institutions and
individuals can open space for decolonial and diverse
perspectives on making.
Tunstall is the author of Decolonizing
Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook. Her
progressive approaches challenge conventional design paradigms
that exclude and harm indigenous cultures and champion diversity,
equity and inclusivity practices in communities and
organizations.
With a global career that includes being an associate
professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Illinois at
Chicago and Swinburne University in Australia, Tunstall made
history as the first Black scholar and Black female dean of a
design faculty with her position at OCAD University in Toronto,
Canada.
Supported through an endowment provided by the Carlos and Andrea
Alberini Family Foundation, the speaker series brings renowned
innovators and thinkers in design to campus to inspire students
and encourage community engagement and learning. The talk is
organized by the UC Davis Department of Design and co-sponsored
by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
The Department of Design is part of the College of Letters and
Science at UC Davis.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA