A conversation between Yassine Salihine, moderator, designer and senior curator at the Design Museum Den Bosch, and Ritvik Khushu, a Kashmiri artistic researcher and designer based in the Netherlands, exploring the violence of industrial design, the wisdom of the earth, decoloniality, indigenous knowledge, and much more.
This podcast is part of the series Design of the Times, created by Yassine Salihine for Designplatform Rotterdam.
About Ritvik Kyushu
Ritvik Khushu’s work is situated at the intersections of decolonial theory, design (as the edifice of modern aesthetics and materialism), and memory — that is material and immaterial, communal and ancestral. By employing storytelling as a tool of reclamation and reappropriation, his work seeks to reclaim, foreground and recover historically altered and injured knowledges, imaginaries, and worlding traditions. His work takes form through multi-media installations and performance to tell complex stories of shared heritage.