Mechanisms of Ongoing Colonisation

Registrations open Jun/Jul 2025

The primary learning objective of this course is to provide clear perspectives of colonisation as a system and coloniality as a culture. This understanding supports participants in better identifying colonial perspectives and tools in themselves, their work, and their societies. Explorations nudged by this course assists participants in developing decolonial and other accountability strategies, e.g. implementing anti-colonial governance structures in project management, internal coloniality assessments as part of harm reduction in direct relationality and collaborative engagements, and aligning advocacy and activism in seeking decolonial justice and reparations.

Designed around a suggested three-month period of exploration, this course looks at three aspects of colonisation as an introductory interrogation, with the flexibility to deepen and broaden with further inquiry:

Development Aggression

An exploration of colonial harms and traumas, systemic profiteering and hoarding, and reparative justice and decolonial sustainability

Manipulation of Power

An interrogation of how narratives, behaviours, systems and cultures have been - and are - managed and controlled by white supremacist power structures in our colonial world order

Evolution of Coloniality

A study of the development of mechanisms used to advance colonisation in different arenas, driving academic research, technological innovation, mass communication, and organisational governance.

Learning Potential

Developing an awareness of the extent and scale of systems of coloniality, especially in the context participants themselves apply

Building familiarity with decolonial topics such as hegemonic power structures, incentivisation mechanisms, and institutional narratives

Connecting dots between individual and collective, local and global, trauma and profits, and oppression and privilege at a practical level

Engaging in a different mode of learning, one that is expansive rather than prescriptive, as a rejection of indoctrinated learning

A practice of assessing patterns of coloniality within ourselves that we are taught and incentivised to externalise, observing what triggers discomfort, protectionism, defensiveness, and why

Notes on visuals

Samantha Suppiah
Course admin
& designer

Luiza Oliveira
Course admin
& designer

Anna Denardin
Course &
visual designer

COURSE DESIGNERS

Ana Cristina Vides
Course designer

COURSE FEES

EUR 500

includes 6% Stripe fees