Yaw Ofosu-Asare⁠ is a Ghanaian-Australian designer, educator, and researcher whose work bridges decolonial design, critical pedagogy, and African futures. He is the author of Decolonising Design in Africa: Towards New Theories, Methods, and Practices (Routledge, 2024) and African Design Futures: Decolonising Minds, Education, Spaces, and Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). With a PhD in Education from Southern Cross University, Yaw’s research explores the intersections of Indigenous knowledge systems, storytelling, and visual communication as tools for liberation and transformation. He has designed for grassroots organisations, educational institutions, and global social change movements, blending community-based design with speculative thinking. Yaw is currently based in Australia, where he teaches communication design and contributes to projects on climate justice, disability inclusion, and cultural sustainability. His work is rooted in a deep commitment to equity, memory, and creative reimagination⁠. In this interview we talk about the book, about language challenges, storytelling, color and of course, decolonising design, the topic of this series.

We have done this interview with Daniel Huppatz.

He recommends us to look into:

⁠⁠Ghana Design conference in September. ⁠⁠

⁠Black skin white masks⁠ by Frantz Fanon

The work of ⁠Efo Sela Adjei⁠

This episode is part of the lists: Decolonizar el diseño, Australia y diseño, D&D in English, Educación en diseño y Territorio y diseño. This is episode number 11 of the series Decolonizing Design Through Dialogue.  This series is possible thanks to the⁠ Design History Society⁠, which awarded me the Decolonising Design History Grant. They also advised me on whom to interview outside of Latin America, so that this series would have a more international perspective. This series features interviewees and projects from India, Argentina, Spain, Ghana, the USA, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Australia, Ecuador, and Paraguay. It is a trilingual series, with episodes in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. I interview designers, artists, and researchers.