In this talk, I make a case for an urgent process of (un)thinking science, so as to better contribute to decolonizing urbanism. I describe this (un)thinking as a kind of “conscious practical work” that enables us to move beyond Cartesian binary thinking, toward critical reading and re-writing of the word and world (Freire, 1983/1991). For example, by engaging in a womanist-feminist renegade architectural project of “critical spatial literacy” in order to read the gendered, racist and heteronormative codes that inform and are informed by the built environment, in order to decipher, contest and/or subvert them (Amoo-Adare, 2013). In this vein, I argue that (un)thinking must be a type of praxis (reflection and action/knowing and doing) that also enables our engagement in diverse and multiple forms of “decolonial love” (Sandoval, 2000; Craun, 2013); including an “academics of the heart” (Rendon, 2000) and other pedagogical practices that are necessary to thrive as scholars, activists, artists, and/or educators who are interested in fomenting social and cognitive justice (Santos, 2014) as part of our daily work, while we simultaneously transgress knowledge boundaries, co-construct threshold theories (Keating, 2013), thus, enable a world of pluriversal (situated) knowledges and our own decolonial becomings. In so doing, we might well continue to contribute to the survival of our many precious (non)human epigenetic entanglements that struggle within what Ziauddin Sardar (2010, 2015) describes as “postnormal times”, which are comprised of chaos, complexity, contradiction and much uncertainty.
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