Bibliographic record
Abstract
Design education has not substantially evolved and for generations of design students Eurocentric influence has been canonized. Not surprisingly, design educators perpetuate the ideologies they learned and the practices they have been taught. Non-European design traditions and designers continue to be othered or are made invisible in contemporary curriculum. The centering of Eurocentric design pedagogy and curriculum and decentering of design knowledges and contributions by other cultures, negates the lived experience of Indigenous, Black diaspora and other racialized students and restricts ways to characterize competence. Black students in Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) schools have reported a “room of silence” in which instructors and students fail to provide substantive feedback during critique citing lack knowledge. In contrast, implicit bias has been reflected in comments because critique is culturally bound. In this commentary on pedagogy, I present the Nguzo Saba as a framework to counter the monolithic hegemony and expand the scope of design education. The principles of the Nguzo Saba framework are Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity) and Imani (Faith). The Nguzo Saba framework encompasses African diaspora epistemologies such as Ubuntu. The framework’s guiding principles are grounded in Kawaida Theory, a liberatory ideology for social change.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".