Theme: Decolonising Design and Culture

Episode 9: In this final episode of the season, Zara Arshad is joined by Rachael Minott, an artist, curator and researcher, to explore Rachael's expansive practice, as well as the importance of language in decolonising work, and creating networks of care.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Decolonising Design and Culture

Episode 8: Zara Arshad talks to educator and researcher Tanveer Ahmed about her work, which aims to contribute to alternative fashion design educational paradigms by generating new anti-racist, post-capitalist and pluriversal agendas.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Decolonising Design and Culture

Episode 7: Zara Arshad sits down with designer, educator and researcher Danah Abdulla to discuss decolonising work, particularly within academic institutions.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Divergent Models

Episode 6: Zara Arshad speaks with Etienne Joseph, co-founder of Decolonising the Archive (DTA), about oral (history) traditions, situating the intangible within archival practice, and DTA's current and future directions.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Divergent Models

Episode 5: Zara Arshad and editor/writer Debika Ray discuss the overlaps between design history research and design journalism, and about Clove, a magazine of South Asian culture, which Debika founded in 2017.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Divergent Models

Episode 4: Zara Arshad and design historian Vivien Chan explore Vivien's expansive research practice, from co-founding the Hong Kong Design History Network, to "alternative" archives, and self-publishing.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Institutions

Episode 3: Zara Arshad sits down with Yewande YoYo Odunubi, an independent artist and creative practitioner, to discuss Yewande's work with/for large-scale cultural institutions, and beyond.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Institutions

Episode 2: Zara Arshad speaks to curator Sumitra Upham about working for London's Design Museum and the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, alongside creating new models for and inclusive approaches to curating.

Music credits: ZapSplat.

Theme: Institutions

Episode 1: Zara Arshad speaks to Arike Oke about her role as Managing Director of the Black Cultural Archives, the home of Black British history, touching on the organisation's past, present, and future directions.

Music credits: ZapSplat.