Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall: 'Respectful Design: 6 Steps for Diversity, Equity, & Decolonizing Design'

On Thursday, November 12, 2020, Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall spoke with Senior Critic in Graphic Design Forest Young (‘06) about her role as Dean of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University, in which she's working to actively combat design and design history's role in perpetuating inequities.

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual, and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory, culture, and design. As Dean of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University, she is the first black and black female dean of a faculty of design. She leads the Cultures-Based Innovation Initiative focused on using old ways of knowing to drive innovation processes that directly benefit communities.

With a global career, Dori served as Associate Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Dean at Swinburne University in Australia. She wrote the biweekly column "Un-Design" for "The Conversation Australia." In the U.S., she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She organized the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative and served as a director of Design for Democracy. Industry positions included UX strategists for Sapient Corporation and Arc Worldwide. Dori holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.

_______________________________________________

The Yale School of Art’s Graphic Design department's 2020-2021 Guest Speaker Series represents a multitude of diverse practices and perspectives on the current state of the discipline.

All conversations are open to the public unless otherwise noted, and will take place virtually using Zoom, with policies in place to ensure a productive, respectful virtual space. The series continues through March 2021.