Routes to Design History: Episode 4 - Ezrena Marwan

DHS Podcasts

15 July, 2025

In the next episode of our new podcast series: Routes to Design History, we speak with Ezrena Marwan, a graphic designer, educator, and archivist, who specialises in visual advocacy and the politics of archives. Ezrena co-founded Malaysia Design Archive (MDA), a platform tracing Malaysia’s graphic design history, and Sejarah Wanita, a project highlighting women’s contributions to Malaysian history. Currently, she is the Co-Lead of Liberatory Archives and Memory at Whose Knowledge?, where she is dreaming of alternative approaches to archiving to challenge colonial capitalist memory institutions. Through her work, Ezrena challenges dominant narratives in design, history, and social justice.

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Developed by our Teaching and Learning Officer Deepika Srivastava, our Student Officer Alex Todd, and our Ambassadors Dan Mu and Pippy Stephenson, the Routes to Design History podcast series explores diverse ways of practising the field. Join us as we uncover the many routes to shaping a career in design history.