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Designerly Ways of Knowing: A Working Inventory of Things a Designer Should Know
- Writer
- Danah Abdulla
- Date
- 2025
- Publisher
- Set Margins’
- Format
- Monographs
- ISBN
- 9789083449883
- Genre
- Design, Graphic Design
In 2018, the architect and activist Michael Sorkin published the now beloved essay-list “Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know.” Struck by the compelling form of this text, Danah Abdulla compiled a version for designers—“a list based on a search for knowledge and a designer’s commitment to making the world a better place,” as she writes. Abdulla’s list includes the experience of scents; how critical theory does not account for the colonial experience; the dangers of seeking out simplicity; visual pollution; and how certain emblems and symbols make people feel. It is meant to be approached as a series of prompts to consider, discard or spark a conversation.
Danah Abdulla (born 1986) is a Palestinian Canadian designer, educator and researcher. She is Program Director of Graphic Design at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, and a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform.
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