This article initiates a discussion about the unequal geography of the labor that challenges institutions and processes of public scholarship in design. The comparison between the urban competitions in New York, London, and Rio de Janeiro demonstrates that it was only in the Global South that challenges to the technology of the competition were raised. These challenges were based on issues of power imbalances between institutions both within and between the Global North and Global South, and around questions of the social inequalities embedded in the structures of the competition itself (the submissions, the jury, the exhibition). Through this analysis, the article suggests that the burden of labor for decolonizing rests on those already oppressed by systems embedded in the continuous presence of colonialism.

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不平等的思想：对政治设计的思考，里约热内卢的城市思想竞赛

本文开始讨论劳动的不平等地理，挑战公共设计学术研究的制度和过程。纽约、伦敦和里约热内卢城市竞赛的比较表明，只有在全球南部才对竞赛的技术提出了挑战。这些挑战的基础是全球北方和全球南方内部和之间机构之间的权力不平衡问题，以及竞争本身结构（提交材料、评审团、展览）中的社会不平等问题。通过这种分析，文章表明，去殖民化的劳动负担落在那些已经被殖民主义持续存在的制度压迫的人身上。