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Canon Shifting Through Storytelling: Curating Decolonial Texts for Second-Year Graphic Design Curriculum
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Canon Shifting Through Storytelling: Curating Decolonial Texts for Second-Year Graphic Design Curriculum

Yaw Ofosu-Asare and Rebecca Ailís Nally
Cuaderno, Vol.325, pp.83-111
15/07/2026
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Abstract

storytelling pedagogy graphic design education canon decolonising curriculum close reading annotation African philosophy language sovereignty
This article examines how a second-year graphic design studio course and its curated story list operate together as a decolonising intervention in design education. Situated in Naarm/Melbourne on Birrarung-ga, the paper focuses on the first four weeks of Storytelling through Design (GRAP3071), where students undertake close readings of narrative works that sit outside familiar Euro-American classroom canons and then transpose those readings into graphic decisions.

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