Decolonising Imagination: Reclaiming Knowledge, Identity & Creative Futures
A talk and discussion with TIRENI ADENIJI
DATE: Tuesday, June 23
START TIME: 7:00 PM
END TIME: 8:30 PM (Talk is approx 1 hour, followed by 30 mins for questions and discussion).
LOCATION: Online, via zoom
COST: £0- £9 PAYF
ACCESS - The session will have captions.
"Decolonising Imagination: Reclaiming Knowledge, Identity & Creative Futures” is an online talk exploring how colonial systems continue to shape the ways we learn, create, and understand knowledge. Drawing from my work through The A.K.A.N.I Toolkit, the session will discuss decolonial approaches to design, collective imagination, Afrikan and Indigenous knowledge systems, and alternative ways of thinking about creativity, identity, community, and the future.
Blending personal reflection, research, visual process work, and audience discussion, the talk invites participants to critically rethink dominant frameworks within education and creative practice while collectively imagining more just, connected, and culturally grounded futures.
The talk will be around 1 hour followed by 30 minutes of questions and discussion.
About Tireni
Tireni Adeniji is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher working across fine art, architecture, and decolonial pedagogy. She is the founder of The A.K.A.N.I Toolkit (Ancestral Knowledge + Arts Narratives Integration), a platform exploring Afrikan and Indigenous approaches to design, education, and collective imagination through workshops, writing, research, and community engagement. Her work centres themes of memory, identity, embodied learning, and alternative ways of producing knowledge
