Decolonial Design reflections in conversation with Peter Crnokrak — by Sara Luna Ruiz & Cornelia Lund

Decolonial Design is a reflection that emerged from a conversation with Peter Crnokrak, professor and head of the design programme at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE).

This conversation arises from the need to reflect on how, in the contemporary world, with the rise of artificial intelligence imposing itself across almost every field of human creation, we must ask about the disposition of this tool in relation to its colonizing or decolonizing power. In practice, AI is trained through particular logics of information processing, while people often revere it almost as if it were a filter of truth and pure reason, stripped of bias by virtue of its synthetic, machinic nature. Technology is a double-edged weapon: while it brings us closer to knowledge and democratizes access to it, it can also be colonizing, in the sense that it is technically limited in its capacity to hold all possible manifestations of non-Western cultures.

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