Roundtable: Decolonizing Ukrainian Design

11/16/2023

Roundtable: Decolonizing Ukrainian Design

The third event in the Ukrainian Museum’s roundtable series of seminal panel discussions is co-organized and hosted by The Cooper Union's Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. Expert panelists will discuss the ongoing effort to correct Russian and Soviet colonialism in Ukrainian design, with a particular focus on graphic design and typography, but also touching on fashion design, textile design, architecture, and industrial design.  

Panelists will include Dr. Myroslav Shkandrij, Professor Emeritus of Ukrainian Literature and Language at the University of Manitoba; Aliona Solomadina, Kyiv-based graphic designer and researcher; Yurko Gutsulyak, award-winning graphic designer and co-founder of Gutsulyak.Studio; and Alexander Tochilovsky, Curator, Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography at The Cooper Union.

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