Wed, May 1, 2024 from 4:30 – 5:30pm Pacific Time

Lecture is open to the public. This is a hybrid event. Attendees may join in-person at the Stanford d.school, the Atrium or log-in via Zoom. 

RSVP to attend in-person at the Stanford d.school, the Atrium

RSVP to attend via Zoom (Zoom login will be emailed out one week prior to the event)

Eventbrite for this event is experiencing some internal delays on sending out confirmation emails. Don’t worry, you will definitely get a reconfirmation a week prior to the event. 

We’ll also be hosting an open reception for guests interested in engaging in deeper conversations with Dori before her lecture. See event details below:

Open Reception + Book Signing with Dr. Dori Tunstall

• WED May 1 from 2:30 – 3:45 pm 
• d.school, the Grove (adjacent to the Atrium on the 1st floor)
• No RSVPs, open event to the public
• Come join Dori in conversation over some light refreshments and receive a signed copy of her book (for the first 30 attendees). 

Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook 

In this presentation, Dr. Dori Tunstall will address two aspects of decolonizing design: Putting Indigenous First and Dismantling the Racist Bias in the European Modernist Project in Design. 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 bodies and communities. By showing the racism inherent in the focus on modernist design as the standard, she demonstrates in both theory and practice how institutions and individuals can open space for decolonial and diverse perspectives on making. 

Bio

Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall (Stanford PhD 1999) is a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational design leader, consultant, and coach. As the renowned author of “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook,” she is a path-breaker of progressive approaches that challenge conventional design paradigms that exclude and harm Indigenous cultures in order to decolonize them and champion diversity, equity, and inclusivity practices in communities and organizations.

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 Guide, and the 2023 SEGD Excellence in Design Education Award. 

Dori’s profound commitment to making an expansive impact beyond academia has recently led her to establish Dori Tunstall, Inc., a firm dedicated to decolonizing and diversifying institutional processes for companies and organizations through corporate education, executive coaching, and strategic consulting.