While framed by the Dori’s professional and lived experiences, Dori Tunstall Inc’s approaches are also steeped in her deep scholarship on decolonizing approaches to organizational transformation and the design of everyday life.
The summation of her thought leadership to date is the book Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook (Feb. 14, 2023, MIT Press).
From the excesses of world expositions to myths of better living through technology, modernist design, in its European-based guises, has excluded and oppressed the very people whose lands and lives it reshaped. Decolonizing Design first asks how modernist design has encompassed and advanced the harmful project of colonization—then shows how design might address these harms by re-centering its theory and practice in global Indigenous cultures and histories.
Dori Tunstall is a contributing writer for Fast Company focusing on “world builders,” the creatives who build the worlds of film and television and how they are helping to re-envision a more culturally just world.
From 2013-2015, Dori wrote Un-Design, a biweekly column for The Conversation – Australia. She published 46 articles on a wide range of topics through a design anthropological lens—from sacred mourning cloths, ballroom dancing, government oppression, voting, J-Lo’s butt, menstrual products, to smart watches. The column garnered over 138,000 readers.
