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Description: Elsa Westreicher (b. 1989) is a graphic designer living and working in Berlin. She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and The New School for Social Research.
Elsa Westreicher (*1989, Kinshasa, DRC) lives and works between Berlin and Kinshasa. She graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with First Class Honors in 2012 and was able to pursue her interest in cultural studies at The New School for Social Research in 2013–2014 through a DAAD scholarship. Her practice is grounded in an awareness for communicative conventions and visual languages and the desire to question and destabilise reading patterns, including the logics of coloniality. She
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Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a School of Design was a long term project by S A V V Y Contemporary in 2019 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus. With a many-headed and many-handed team, we attempted to challenge and act against the inherent, neocolonial power structures in design practices, theory and teaching by spiralling the project between three spaces: Germany (Dessau and Berlin), D. R. Congo (Kinshasa) and China (Hongkong).
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