Decolonising Knowledge: Decolonising Design & Engineering | Rolando Vázquez Melken

Applying the perspective of decoloniality to design and engineering provides a way to rethink the Western model of how we shape and give meaning to our world. Join us in exploring this perspective with our speaker, Dr. Rolando Vázquez Melken, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University College Roosevelt of Utrecht University.
Recorded @ NewMedia Centre, TU Delft
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SG TU Delft presents: the Decolonising Knowledge series
This series of events explores the legacy of colonial power structures in society.
Decolonisation, roughly put, is a social movement and academic project that seeks to empower knowledge, cultures, and peoples marginalized by the legacy of colonialism and its power structures. This movement also reflects critically on the historical role of universities and Western knowledge production in relation to colonialism. It encompasses issues of race, gender, land ownership, ways of knowing, reparations, resource extraction, rights and representation, and more.
The program will consist of a core of lecture series introducing the decolonial perspective and its application. There will also be numerous satellite events with master classes, a film night, and discussion groups.
Visit www.sg.tudelft.nl for more on our events.

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Great lecture - one point of information at about 14 minutes in: Deforestation of rainforest is due in the most part to animal agriculture. The production of soya for animal feed; not in order to produce soya milk. The amount of soya used to produce soya milk pales in comparison to the millions of tonnes produced for animal feed for beef, chicken, for the meat and dairy industry.
Therefore, soya milk produced for human consumption results in far, far less environmental degradation than it takes to produce dairy milk, meat, chicken or other animal products.