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[https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/rescuing-africas-overlooked-design-legacy/ by Jillian M. Harris THE MIT PRESS READER] | [https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/rescuing-africas-overlooked-design-legacy/ by Jillian M. Harris THE MIT PRESS READER] | ||
Like most of history, the lens through which design has been evaluated is admittedly Eurocentric. Yet if we widen that lens, we find a more diverse landscape of design history that includes the contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Because these contributions weren’t perceived as affecting the evolution of European and U.S. design, they didn’t meet the criteria set for inclusion in the canons. | Like most of history, the lens through which design has been evaluated is admittedly Eurocentric. Yet if we widen that lens, we find a more diverse landscape of design history that includes the contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Because these contributions weren’t perceived as affecting the evolution of European and U.S. design, they didn’t meet the criteria set for inclusion in the canons. | ||
=====The Ancient Nubian City of Kerma, 2500-1500 B.C.===== | |||
[https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/ancient-nubian-city-kerma-2500-1500-bc%3Aevent-exhib-1234 by Smithsonian 26/7/1995] | |||
Forty objects celebrate the wealth and artistic traditions of Kerma, the oldest city in Africa outside Egypt that has been excavated. Kerma (located in present-day Sudan) was the capital of the kingdom known to the ancient Egyptians as Kush. Incredibly thin ceramics, colorful jewelry, and a variety of small ivory inlays in the shape of animals are among the objects that reveal Kerma's wealth and artistic traditions. | |||
