I have seen and heard about Arturo Escobar’s book Designs for the Pluriverse (2018) in different contexts and have been meaning to read it for a while. It has even popped up on several reading lists fort my students but I never got around to reading it. When I saw the introduction chapter on the…

In the context of my teaching we talk a lot about Design Thinking. Recently me and my colleague held a seminar with 3rd year BA students on the theme of ‘Design Thinking is Bullshit’ based on a recently published article in the MIT Technology Review. In the article, Rebecca Ackermann (2023) criticises the clean processed…

“Anna, you’re always so… cute when you’re teaching!” – a student This comment by a student recently made me question my position as a teacher. Who am I in the classroom? How do I come across? What are my ways of being as an educator? In a paper with the title “Improving teaching: Enhancing ways…