Event
26 Feb 2025
6 to 7 p.m.
AUArts Campus - Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre
Visiting Speaker: Dr. Dori Tunstall
AUArts hosts distinguished design anthropologist and celebrated author Dr. Dori Tunstall for a public lecture that will address two aspects of decolonizing design.
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook
In this presentation, Dr. Dori Tunstall will address two aspects of decolonizing design: Putting Indigenous First and Making Amends through more than DEI.
She provides a framework to understand one's positionality vis-a-vis Indigenous sovereignty and how that sets conditions for design that provides liberatory joy to all bodies and communities. She then demonstrates the possibilities of institutional transformation by describing OCAD University's hiring initiatives while she served as the "supertoken" Dean of Design from 2016-2023.
About Dr. Elizabeth "Dori" Tunstall
Dr. Elizabeth "Dori" Tunstall is a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational leader, consultant, and coach. As the renowned author of "Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook," she is a path-breaker of liberatory approaches that challenge conventional design paradigms that exclude and harm Indigenous, Black, and other cultural communities.
With a global career encompassing an Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Swinburne University in Australia, respectively, Dori made history as the first black and black female Dean of a Design Faculty anywhere at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Her accomplishments have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, notably the 2022 Sir Misha Black Award for Distinguished Service to Design Education, the inaugural BADG of Honour for Design Education from the Black Artists and Designers Guild, and the 2023 SEGD Excellence in Design Education Award.
Website: www.doritunstall.com