Creative Emergence Through Story and Land: Indigenous pedagogies in transnational design education
Herman Pi’ikea Clark
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“ʻUpu aʻe ke ola” — words give life. This presentation shows how Indigenous pedagogy reorients creativity, curriculum and practice in design education. Drawing on experiences across Canada, Hawai‘i and Aotearoa/New Zealand, it positions Indigenous ways of knowing not as cultural content, but as methodological ground. Central to this framework are Talanoa (dialogue as pedagogy), mo‘olelo and ko‘ihonua (story and genealogy as epistemology), land-based learning (‘āina, whenua) and kinship-based teaching figures that embody accountability and care.
These structures expose the limits of conventional approaches rooted in Western philosophy while generating new practices of continuity, responsibility and creative emergence. Indigenous pedagogy is already reshaping how we imagine design education’s future.
Herman Pi’ikea Clark
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