ORIENTierungsplan #3: On Self-Orientalism and Decolonising Design 30.10.2020

Imad Gebrayel will be discussing self-Orientalism in Arab* Design, design
education between Lebanon, The Netherlands and Germany and the need to
decolonize representation across all knowledge-production disciplines. Imad will
also elaborate on means of reclaiming intersectional identifications in migrant
contexts, his work with different communities in Berlin and his field research
on Sonnenallee as a space for negotiating Arab-Muslim identifications, part of
his PhD at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin.


Imad is a creative director and researcher specializing in identity
representation and bilingual visual communication. He has produced visual and
theoretical works around self-Orientalism in Arab design, subjective mapping and
archiving. He also collaborated with several journalistic platforms, exploring
common grounds between design and media outlets...

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