Author Events
WED, May 6, 2026
2pm EST
The Pattern Is Love: Sawali as Decolonial Futures Practice
What does love have to do with futuring? Bea Rodriguez-Fransen argues that Maternal Love—understood through Freire and hooks as educational and political commitment—is what sustains the long work of building liberatory futures. Drawing on the Filipino practice of sawali weaving, she demonstrates how patience, repair, and intergenerational knowledge-passing become methods for accountable, community-led worldmaking. Her Decolonial Design Futures Framework weaves together storytelling, reflection, imagination, and design justice into patterns of practice that honor non-linear time and collective care. Futuring, she suggests, is not imagination or strategy alone; it is love made actionable.
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Education and Decolonial Futures in the Philippines
Perspectives for Educators and Practitioners
- Provides a new educational tool that can be used by any educator or practitioner in the world, Decolonial Portals
- Offers a new framework, Decolonial Design Futures, that can be used for scholarly research or design projects
- Illuminates the perspectives of Filipina educators, who are underrepresented in decoloniality and education research
