Palestrantes

Renomado palestrante internacional e educador, que vê a desobediência produtiva como um comportamento capaz de levar nosso pensamento e ação para novos domínios. Em 2017, seu livro “Disobedient Teaching” tornou-se referência na reconceituação da educação na Nova Zelândia. Autor de diversas publicações nacionais e internacionais, avaliador e consultor de agências de financiamento. Atua também como autor, cineasta e designer com reconhecimento internacional.

Tem dedicado sua carreira acadêmica a pesquisar e apoiar a investigação conduzida pela prática como forma de acomodar e estender formas de pensamento, para além do linear e ritualizado. Acredita que a Academia é enriquecida, não pela tradição, mas por sua capacidade de abraçar diversas formas de pesquisa, incluindo abordagens indígenas, artísticas, profissionais e heurísticas para a geração de conhecimento.

Terry Irwin é diretora do Transition Design Institute na Carnegie Mellon University e foi chefe da escola de 2009 a 2019. Terry leciona em nível universitário desde 1986. Sua pesquisa é em Transition Design, uma nova área de estudo e prática de design e pesquisas que defendem a transição da sociedade em direção a futuros mais sustentáveis. Terry, junto com Gideon Kossoff e Cameron Tonkinwise, desenvolveu o Transition Design e o integrou aos programas e currículos da School of Design em 2014. 

Terry é designer profissional há mais de 40 anos e foi um dos sócios fundadores da MetaDesign, uma empresa internacional de design com escritórios em Berlim, Londres, São Francisco e Zurique. Ela atuou como diretora de criação do escritório de São Francisco de 1992 a 2002 e trabalhou com clientes da Fortune 500, como Nike, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Barclay's Bank, Ernst and Young (EY), Nissan, Sony e empresa de transportes de Berlim , BVG. MetaDesign trabalhou em projetos nas áreas de software de computador e design de interface, sistemas de identidade de marca, exposição e localização e design de informação. 

Alfredo Gutierrez Borrero is associate Professor of the School of Product Design at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a PhD Candidate in Design and Creation, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia. Alfredo defended his doctoral thesis dissertation about Designs of the South, the Souths (in plural), others and with other names, abbreviated in English as Dessobons this November 4 and obtained the highest recognition by his juries.

He studies the design equivalents within polycardinal (better than non Western) thought traditions (Andean, Maori, Lakota) and the Autonomous design forms as leak points and alternatives to racist, capitalist and heteropatriarchal modernities. He is interested in declassification, decoloniality, designs of the souths, designs with other names and the intersection between archaeology and design fields.

Alfredo is also involved in the design for Pluriversal initiatives in Colombia, several Latin American countries, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Portugal and Spain. He has a master's degree in gender studies, and has been working in the Colombian and International academic milieu since 1998.

Lesley-Ann Noel is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Design Studies at North Carolina State University. Her current work is situated at the intersection of equity, co-creation and futures thinking. Her research interests are emancipatory research centred around the perspectives of those who would traditionally be excluded from research, community-led research, design-based learning and design thinking. She practices primarily in the area of social innovation, education and public health. She promotes greater critical awareness among designers and design students by introducing critical theory concepts and vocabulary into the design studio e.g. through The Designer’s Critical Alphabet.

She is co-Chair of the Pluriversal Design Special Interest Group of the Design Research Society. Before joining North Carolina State University, she was the Associate Director of Design Thinking for Social Impact at Tulane University. She was also a lecturer at Stanford University and the University of the West Indies.

Dr. Frederick (Fred) van Amstel (he/him/his) is Assistant Professor of Service Design and Experience Design at the Industrial Design Academic Department (DADIN), Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil. His most recent research deals with the contradiction of oppression and the possibility of designing for liberation. Among the many projects he developed to explore this very possibility, Corais Platform stands out as the best example so far. Created in 2011, it hosts more than 700 collaborative projects run by social movements, indigenous communities, art collectives, and popular educators associated with the Brazilian digital culture movement. In 2020, Frederick co-founded the Design & Oppression network in Brazil and the Laboratory of Design against Oppression in UTFPR.

Natalie Robertson (Ngāti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh) is a photographic and moving image artist and Senior Lecturer at AUT University, Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). Much of Natalie’s research is based in Te Tai Rāwhiti, her East Coast Ngāti Porou homelands. Centring Waiapu—the ancestral river of Ngāti Porou—world-famous for its erosion, Natalie draws on historic archives and tribal oral customs to explore how her lens-based practice can contribute to tribal aspirations for environmental reinvigoration.

Robertson recently completed her doctoral thesis Tātara e maru ana: Renewing ancestral connections with the sacred rain cape of Waiapu Kōkā Hūhua through the University of Auckland.