Criticised for its lack of diversity, the design history canon has sought to redeem itself by integrating a ‘global’ notion to make up for excluding the histories of nations in the Global South. But what constitutes a global design history and why are certain people representative of an entire region?
This lecture presents ‘global’ design as a myth, an Anglospheric invention that embellishes the existing canon through terms dictated by the dominant design narratives of the Global North.
