632. DECOLONIZE 11. African communal ways (Ghana). A talk with Yaw Ofosu-Asare

Yaw Ofosu-Asare is a designer and researcher from Ghana based in Australia. He wrote the book Decolonising design in Africa. In this interview we talk about the book, about language challenges, storytelling, color and of course, decolonising design, the topic of this series.

We did this interview with Daniel Huppatz.

He recommends us to look into:

⁠Ghana Design conference in September. ⁠

Black skin white masks by Frantz Fanon

The work of Efo Sela Adjei

This episode is part of the lists: Decolonizar el diseño, Australia y diseño, D&D in English y Territorio y diseño. This is episode number 11 of the series Decolonizing Design Through Dialogue.  This series is possible thanks to the Design History Society, which awarded me the Decolonising Design History Grant. They also advised me on whom to interview outside of Latin America, so that this series would have a more international perspective. This series features interviewees and projects from India, Argentina, Spain, Ghana, the USA, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Australia, Ecuador, and Paraguay. It is a trilingual series, with episodes in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. I interview designers, artists, and researchers.