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Listen to the well-travelled and academic perspective of Dr. Cornelia Lund, who emphasises the importance of fostering knoweldge exchange and integrating non-white European perspectives within art and design. Lund shares her interest and thoughts on African art within a global context, as well as the typical misinterpretation by the West that Africa “is one of the preferred objects to be saved, which we can also see in the Aid industry. A lot of designers go there very enthusiastically and do projects. They don’t even ask local people if they want to be saved… and also completely ignore the local knowledge.”

Lund recognises the Eurocentric and Anglocentric theories and practices within teaching art, but acknowledges there are many perspectives and not just within academia that are valid. A lecturer at University of the Arts Bremen, curator and critical thinker. Lund is joined by guest lecturer, our host, Beatrace, for the Deconstructing Colonialism course.