Jananda Lima

Jananda Lima is a sessional professor at the School of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, and a consultant researcher at the Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge. As an academic, her research in social design involves fieldwork in radically marginalized territories. As a futures designer, she focuses on reclaiming design for decolonial world-making. Jananda co-founded the Medio Xingu Observatory, which proposes a partnership between Indigenous and academic knowledge, using cartography to generate counter-narratives. She is also a member of the Reimagining Wealth Initiative, which aims to create exchange flows otherwise, supporting shared value resources and knowledge. Currently, Jananda is Rosi Waikhon’s mentee as part of an OCADU and Canada Council of Arts initiative to support BIPOC artists.