Decolonizing design is a fashionable concept often discussed as theory but rarely enacted as practice. In Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, Arturo Escobar, a Colombian-American anthropologist interested in post-capitalist realities, attempts to change this. He narrates a series of processes and approaches that designers – and even those who are not – can use to decolonize ourselves and develop an autonomous design discipline in a pluriverse. To define pluriverse, Escobar uses the anti-globalization group EZLN’s (Ej ercito Zapatista de Liberaci on Nacional) explanation: “a world where many worlds fit” (XVI). He elaborates with the concept of autonom ıa (autonomy), a set of conditions that evolve collectively from within communities. With these concepts as a framework, Escobar explores actionable models for decolonizing Juan Carlos Rodr ıguez Rivera is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Diversity Studies at California College of the Arts. juan@thejohncharles.com © 2019 Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2019.1664496

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多元宇宙的设计：彻底的相互依存、自治和世界的形成

去殖民化设计是一个时髦的概念，经常被当作理论讨论，但很少作为实践来制定。在“多元宇宙的设计：激进的相互依存、自治和世界的形成”一书中，对后资本主义现实感兴趣的哥伦比亚裔美国人类学家阿图罗·埃斯科巴试图改变这一点。他讲述了一系列的过程和方法，设计师——甚至那些不是设计师——可以用来让自己去殖民化，并在多元宇宙中发展一个自主的设计学科。为了定义多元宇宙，Escobar 使用了反全球化组织 EZLN (Ej ercito Zapatista de Liberaci on Nacional) 的解释：“一个适合多个世界的世界”（XVI）。他详细阐述了 autonom ıa（自治）的概念，这是一组从社区内部集体演化的条件。以这些概念为框架，Escobar 探索非殖民化的可行模型 Juan Carlos Rodr ıguez Rivera 是加州艺术学院平面设计和多样性研究的助理教授。juan@thejohncharles.com © 2019 Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera DOI：10.1080/17547075.2019.1664496