This term suggests a new geological epoch marked by human-caused catastrophic changes to Earth's systems. However, it risks depoliticizing environmental harm by implying all humans are equally responsible for and affected by climate change.

The process of undoing colonial ideologies, systems, and structures. In architecture, it involves reevaluating spatial practices and knowledge systems imposed during colonial rule and restoring or honoring Indigenous and local spatial practices.

The expression refers to the approaches, factors, and cultures originating in Europe, including those in North America that emerged directly from the European colonization of the Americas.

We refer to the rest of the World’s population that are not Europe and North America.

We refer to the populations of Europe and North America.

Term internationally recognized to represent a value of European culture.

The term evokes the discrimination created by colonizers between themselves and the local population, encompassing both tangible and intangible factors.

The practice of expanding a nation's authority and influence through colonization, military force, or other methods, here considered from the European Modern era.

Here refers to the movement that originated in Europe and evolved alongside concepts such as progress and capitalism, becoming internationalized in the 20th century.

The term highlights the dichotomy between institutionalized and non-institutionalized practices as defined by modern Imperialism.

Although widely used in literature, we deliberately avoid using these references, as they stem directly from the European perspective of distinguishing themselves from the unfamiliar regions collectively labeled as the Orient.