Nicholas B. Torretta

Anti-oppressive and decolonial design for sustainabilities. PhD candidate at Umeå Institute of Design. Musician, capoeira trainer, chocolate addict.

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@helenasustar Thank you! Thanks for joining! :) we keep o touch! See you around! :)

[dr. İdil Gaziulusoy @idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social @idilgaziulusoy]

V powerful disc. on decolonising design & the impossibility thereof when there’s no choice to speak w colonised lang. which stems from colonised epistemologies creating colonised categories. Caludia Garduno, Nicholas Torretta responding to Carolina Isasi’s thesis. @AaltoCS

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

Presenting anti-oppressive/decolonial design for sustainability at Aalto. Introducing emancipatory concepts.

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

Degrowth conference - decolonizing social imagiraries starting now. Xaviera and I present on Wed :) #degrowth #MexicoCity

[Yana Boeva ➪ @dropsmops.bsky.social @dropsmops]

Moving into the 'nastiness' of design. @nicholas_bt (Umeå) asking how to translate diversity into design education #STS #EASST2018

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

"Not only from the center - multiple voices in design" track at #drs2018 important! :)

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Ow yes! Now we are talking :) "Whose design?" Keynote debate with @andreuchisbo @SadieRedWing and Arturo Escobar at #DRS2018 @DRS2018

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@mariamnotmiriam @clairefmiller @DRS2018 Getting lunch now :) there soon

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@mariamnotmiriam @andreuchisbo @DRS2018 @SadieRedWing Ow yeah :) super! True, one hour is indeed seeming short. Let's see how it rolls, looking forward :)

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@andreuchisbo @mariamnotmiriam @DRS2018 @SadieRedWing Yes, let's see what kind of group we will be during lunch :) building on existing works is always great. (I personally think some existing networks that still have the "super hero - giving voice" view of design which I find problematic.)

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@andreuchisbo @mariamnotmiriam @DRS2018 @SadieRedWing Would be great if we could find a way to stay in touch beyound drs, like having a lil list/network/smth, what do you think?

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@andreuchisbo @mariamnotmiriam @DRS2018 @SadieRedWing I am super up for that! :) we can ask the group that joins today during lunch

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@andreuchisbo @mariamnotmiriam @DRS2018 @SadieRedWing Thanks! Looking super forward for your debate tomorrow :)

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@DRS2018 could you please share? :)

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

@drs2018 If you are interested in issues of diversity, decolonization, oppression, gender, equality, etc in design, let's have lunch tomorrow! Look for a orange backpack, 13:00 in the atrium :) @mariamnotmiriam #PhDByDesign #drs2018

[Nicholas B. Torretta @nicholas_bt]

Important questions from the audience on the screen, a pitty they were not taking into consideration :/ #drs2018 #PhDByDesign #pbdactopus

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Understanding and action!
#DRS2018 #PBDACTOPUS

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@UXGentleman @phdbydesign @DRS2018 Sounds great :)

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Share a cab for @DRS2018 ? Is there someone also landing on Shannon at 23:30 that would like to share a taxi to the uni apts? #drs2018