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No Design on Stolen Land: Dismantling Design's Dehumanising White Supremacy
Author(s) -
Bélanger Pierre
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2535
Subject(s) - appropriation , capitalism , indigenous , white supremacy , context (archaeology) , white (mutation) , sociology , land tenure , property (philosophy) , political science , law , geography , archaeology , politics , epistemology , philosophy , ecology , agriculture , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , biology
Capitalism is predicated on property ownership, and particularly land. The US and Canada are premier examples of the appropriation and dispossession of land occupied by Indigenous Peoples. Pierre Bélanger and co‐founders at OPEN SYSTEMS (OPSYS) based in Boston, on traditional lands of the Massachusett Peoples, illustrate tactics of ‘undesign’ adopted in this context.