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 A collective of educators and students engages in immersive art- and design-driven practice to reimagine higher-education and primary-school teaching and learning at, and beyond, the University of Teacher Education. 

Rooted in curiosity, care and attentiveness to diverse histories and voices, the collective offers open-ended impulses that anyone can adapt, question or extend across a growing constellation of educational hubs.

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Elizabeth Tunstall: Respectful Design


 In this talk, Dori Tunstall defines respectful design as an empathetic, culturally grounded practice that counters centuries of colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal, and capitalist design. She shows how tools like the cotton gin expanded slavery, how brands appropriate Indigenous motifs, and how racist imagery justified exclusionary laws. These examples reveal design’s role in systemic harm when it proceeds without consent, context, or care.

To undo this legacy, Tunstall offers six actionable steps: put Indigenous demands first, acknowledge institutional racism, build genuine BIPOC partnerships, tailor calls and qualifications to community needs, hire in critical mass, and ensure lived experience guides curriculum and policy. Crucially, critique must shift from Eurocentric aesthetics to honoring students’ cultural intentions and expressive norms.

She then urges bridging design education with industry change: graduates skilled in respectful design can lead organizational transformation at moments of crisis and openness.

For education, this means cultivating learning environments where cultural integrity, accountability, and community leadership are central; preparing students not only to design responsibly but to reshape the values and structures of their professions.