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The Future of Humanitarian Design and e-flux Architecture

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Battlefield armband worn by Louis Appia first during the German Danish War of 1864, which was the first time the symbol of the red cross was ever worn to signify a neutral observer of an ongoing battle and the attendant provision of care. Appia was a member of the Geneva "Committee of Five," which was the precursor to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and which organized the first Geneva Convention "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" in 1864. Source: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum/Wikimedia Commons.
Humanitarianism
October 2025










Notes
1

Taking a few too many liberties, we adapt here Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001), 32.

2

Walter Mignolo, “DELINKING: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of De-coloniality,” Cultural Studies 21 nos. 2-3 (2007): 450.

3

Paola Antonelli and James Hunt, Design and Violence (New York: MoMA, 2015).

4

Frantz Fanon, Peau noir, masques blanc (Paris: Éditions du seuil, 1952), 104.

5

Gloria Anzaldúa, “Fragment of Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers,” in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, ed. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1981), 173.

6

Suzanne Césaire, “The Great Camouflage,” Tropiques, nos. 13–14 (1945): 46.

7

Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays, trans. J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 1989), 232.

8

Achille Mbembe, Critique of Black Reason, trans. Laurent Dubois (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), 156.

9

Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 52.

10

Glissant, Caribbean Discourse, 229.

11

Achille Mbembe, “Provisional Notes on the Postcolony,” Africa 62, no. 1 (1992): 3.

12

Anzaldúa, “Fragment of Speaking in Tongues,” 173.







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