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Communities Of Practice: Doing Design Differently, Kate Mcentee Jul 2021

Communities Of Practice: Doing Design Differently, Kate Mcentee

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

This paper reflects on the role of communities of practice in building and supporting critical alternatives to conventional, Dominant Design (Akama, 2021; Rosner, 2018). Dominant Design refers to design practices cultivated within our industrialised, imperialist, patriarchal, capitalist modernity. Discourses and practices addressing this include decolonising design, stemming from modernity/coloniality critique and Indigenous knowledge systems, and anti-oppressive frameworks for design, based in anti- racism and Black feminist scholarship. These discourses at the margins of the dominant discourse and practice recognise the need for critical alternatives to design practices (Abdulla et al., 2019; Costanza-Chock 2018; Mignolo 2007; Schultz et al., 2018). This …

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Redesigning Money As A Tool For Self-Management In Cultural Production, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Frederick Van Amstel, Pedro Henrique Jatobá Jul 2021

Redesigning Money As A Tool For Self-Management In Cultural Production, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Frederick Van Amstel, Pedro Henrique Jatobá

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Money is a crucial mediation for organizing in capitalist societies. Those who lack money cannot easily organize and raise collective consciousness. A naive form of consciousness may reject money to prevent greed and envy. Nevertheless, a critical state of consciousness should perceive money as a tool that can be redesigned to encourage different feelings that can ballast anti-capitalist transactions. This research describes Colaborativa@PE, a collective who designed digital social currencies to nurture solidarity bonds in several cultural production collectives spread through Brazil. These collectives embarked on an inquiry that led them to experiment with solidarity economy and self-management. The need …

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Solidarity As A Principle For Antisystemic Design Processes: Two Cases Of Alliance With Social Struggles In Brazil, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Sâmia Batista E Silva Jul 2021

Solidarity As A Principle For Antisystemic Design Processes: Two Cases Of Alliance With Social Struggles In Brazil, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Sâmia Batista E Silva

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In this essay we reflect on the possibility of politicizing participatory design processes by defending the notion of solidarity in Paulo Freires’s thought. We present a critique of empathy as a relational practice in design, considering it to be an anti-dialogical practice that reifies subjects in design processes focused on developing capitalist commodities. As a counterpoint, we defend solidarity as a dialogical ethical principle and practice that is founded on consciousness and the invilieng and transformation of given reality (of oppression). To support our argument, we present two experiences where we live solidarity-in-praxis while promoting design engagements in Brazil. The …

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Prefigurative Politics And Design, Alix Gerber Jul 2021

Prefigurative Politics And Design, Alix Gerber

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It is difficult to imagine what life might be like without capitalism, patriarchy, and modernism, yet these systems did not always exist: they were built. As professional designers who want to work towards something different, what can we do? Some have turned to prefigurative politics for a path forward. Prefiguration is a political strategy of working towards social transformation by “building the new world in the shell of the old”. For example: solidarity economies prefigure an economy based in cooperation rather than competition through shared ownership of production; and transformative justice initiatives prefigure a world without police by finding new …

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Towards A Political Design Through Feminist Waysof Movement-Making, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa Jul 2021

Towards A Political Design Through Feminist Waysof Movement-Making, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa

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From the understanding that design is a complex force of political and cultural expression, I argue that in the design field we need to be with and learn from social movements, advancing collaboration between erudite and popular practices of creating and shaping worlds. In this freely reflection I present some thoughts from my experience as an educator-militant in a political organization of the Brazilian feminist movement. From this background, I seek to reimagine knowing-doings in design by means of principles systematized in feminist practices within social movements. Through these principles, I aim to reflect on possibilities for a design that …

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Being Co-Conspirators, Mudita Pasari, Prachi Joshi Jul 2021

Being Co-Conspirators, Mudita Pasari, Prachi Joshi

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We live in a multidimensional pluralist world, where colonial, structuralist and industrial approaches of moulding a mind need to be questioned. Perhaps our modern educational system needs to forgo moulding a student and instead insist on developing the potential of a learner. India has long had the traditional approach of rearing a mind which is not bogged down by generalised standards. Despite this legacy, popularised design education here, is a borrowed version from ideologies of the West. The authors of this paper questioned their adopted roles as design facilitators, and conducted a social experiment to decentralise ownership of material and …

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I Hate Creativity, Patricia Kovic Jul 2021

I Hate Creativity, Patricia Kovic

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We love creativity. Everybody loves creativity and everybody wants a “Culture of Creativity.” However, there is strong evidence that we do not even like creativity, especially under stressful conditions. Creativity thrives in conditions of uncertainty, vagueness of purpose and psychological discomfiture — conditions that can be unbearable when added to the current anxieties of a shrinking academic landscape, the pandemic, let alone wicked problems like the climate crisis. We are terrified in these traumatic circumstances, so we shrink away from creativity toward the safety of what is known, understood and proven. As a result, Proxy Creativity emerges — one that …

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An Abundance Of Tools: Attention And Care With Theory, Kate Mcentee Jul 2021

An Abundance Of Tools: Attention And Care With Theory, Kate Mcentee

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This paper argues for the value of sustained exploration of theoretical work and practices from diverse perspectives on the margins of dominant systems, such as radical Black and feminist thought; Indigenous research scholars; queer theorists; modernity/coloniality scholars from the Global South; and critical design practitioners speaking from situated place. Reading, engaging, and extending this work assists with recognising common ways in which we and those around us think, work, and relate to others which accommodate dominant, oppressive systems. This includes recognising ingrained white saviorism, compulsion for efficiency, linear and task-oriented collaboration and deep-seated regard for institutional recognition. Beyond recognition, there …

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Scyborg Designer: The Ghost In The Machine, Clara Meliande Jul 2021

Scyborg Designer: The Ghost In The Machine, Clara Meliande

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In a world on the verge of collapse, it becomes critical to rethink the education of designers, usually trained to reproduce and maintain the capitalist machine. Here, Advocating for a political praxis that avoids universality and understands itself as situated and located, I bring La Paperson’s concept of scyborg to think about how design academia can reflect and become a practice of decoloniality. As someone that collects scraps, components that no longer present value for the system, the scyborg can appropriate and reorganize them, acting like a virus in the system. By creating a mess in the apparatus using its …

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Practicing Place-Based Responsibility, Jean Chisholm, Laura Kozak Jul 2021

Practicing Place-Based Responsibility, Jean Chisholm, Laura Kozak

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Urgent steps are needed to slow and cease ecologically, culturally and socially destructive systems and redistribute power to those with place-based knowledge and sensitivity to contextual conditions. Place-Based Responsibility enacts this practice by coalescing knowledge holders with long histories of participation in this work – those living and working in ways that express care for place. Together, we ask what are our responsibilities, reciprocities and commitments to land? How can we as individuals and as collectives take up the responsibility of contributing to the places where we are? Within Emily Carr University, a group of faculty, students, and community members …

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Visual Exploration Of Identity As A Critical Tool To Disrupt Traditional Canons In Design Pedagogy, Gaby Hernández Jul 2021

Visual Exploration Of Identity As A Critical Tool To Disrupt Traditional Canons In Design Pedagogy, Gaby Hernández

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This contribution discusses results from the implementation of undergraduate and graduate-level projects applied in traditional design studio settings to explore the visualization of identity. Since 2014, the author—a Central American woman of color teaching in public universities in Texas and Florida—has developed multiple hands-on class activities that focus on self-expression, self-awareness, memory, and positionality. In the undergraduate level, these activities start with the introduction of concepts and terminology from traditional design canons (i.e. principles from modernism, the Bauhaus, and other (mostly) Western European Avant Garde movements). Once students gain an understanding of these canonical principles, they embark in a self-discovery …

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Wild Worlding Wunderkammer Workshop, Verena Kuni Jul 2021

Wild Worlding Wunderkammer Workshop, Verena Kuni

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Inspired by the carrier bag theory of fiction let us look for alternate ways to do our work. We do this by worlding: by attuning to and melting into the subject(s) of our research; gathering and gaining situated knowledges, interwoven with multiple threads of imagination and desire. But then gathering and gaining is based on collecting: data, objects, subjects, situations, relations; submitted into an order of things, shifted into storages, from time to time put on display. Imagination and desire are stripped off in this process and stored separately, if at all. That’s why we need a different mind-set, a …

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Liberating Structures For Pluriversal World-Making, Máille Faughnan, Laura Murphy Jul 2021

Liberating Structures For Pluriversal World-Making, Máille Faughnan, Laura Murphy

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One-way lectures, status reports, brainstorming, and open and managed discussions can all be tedious, alienating and demoralizing exercises of unbalanced power. We see opportunities to rethink in-person and online interactions across spheres such as workplaces, classrooms, conferences, and movement organizing. We share essential principles of Liberating Structures (LS), a set of 33+ open-source methods for more engaging and effective gatherings. We offer visual illustrations, practical examples, and insights from our experiences using LS for teaching and facilitation. LS, named by action researcher William Torbert and elaborated by Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless and others, are grounded in complexity thinking (vs. linear …

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Feral Ways Of Knowing And Doing: Tools And Resources For Transformational Creative Practice, Cristina Ampatzidou, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi, Andrea Botero Jul 2021

Feral Ways Of Knowing And Doing: Tools And Resources For Transformational Creative Practice, Cristina Ampatzidou, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi, Andrea Botero

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Creative practices have a role in mediating and supporting concrete, meaningful actions towards sustainability transformations. With this in mind: What are the possibilities and limits of the tools and resources that contemporary creative practices are using to reconceive and redesign forms of interaction between different disciplines, audiences and cultures for sustainability transformations? This contribution presents preliminary findings from a transdisciplinary workshop where the participants were invited to share their experiences of designing or using “tools and resources for feral ways of knowing and transformation” within creative practice. While the concept of ‘feral’ remained open to a wide range of different …

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Insurgent Design Coalitions: The History Of The Design & Oppression Network, Frederick Van Amstel, Batista E Silva Sâmia, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Mazzarotto Marco, Ricardo Artur Carvalho, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto Jul 2021

Insurgent Design Coalitions: The History Of The Design & Oppression Network, Frederick Van Amstel, Batista E Silva Sâmia, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Mazzarotto Marco, Ricardo Artur Carvalho, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto

Pluriversal Design Conference Series

Design research is gettng interested in social movements in recent years. Organizing tactics like coaliSon-building have been taken from civil rights movements and turned into operaSve concepts such as designing coaliSons that point towards converging interests. As such, this concept cannot support social movements, which are not formed by common interests, but by pressing social needs ignored in official and everyday poliScs. This advances further the revision of the designing coaliSon concept based on feminist literature and on the authors' experience in weaving the Design & Oppression Network in Brazil. This network was formed in 2020 by design professors, students, …

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Nested Bodies (Or A Small And Careful Spoonful), Julie Van Oyen Jul 2021

Nested Bodies (Or A Small And Careful Spoonful), Julie Van Oyen

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This short paper refers to a project involving the development of a material fermentation practice into a process-led research praxis, wherein themes of embodiment and the relational bodily self are explored through direct contact with nonhuman agents. Theory and concepts borrowed from an Okanagan perspective of the body, as related through its language by scholar and land speaker Jeannette Armstrong, as well as from interaction design and a rich lineage of embodied researchers and practitioners, contribute to a re-framing of the human as a body dependent on others in the life-making activities of preparing, feeding, and eating the ferments. This …

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Post-Anthropocentric Design: The Problem Of Optimizing The Relationship Between Humans And Nature, Sven Quadflieg Jul 2021

Post-Anthropocentric Design: The Problem Of Optimizing The Relationship Between Humans And Nature, Sven Quadflieg

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The history of design shows countless examples in which design has caused harm on an individual, social, political, or ecological level – even things that are identified as nature, depending on the cultural and geographical context, have already been interfered with by design. All these actions are, of course, anthropocentric – because design is always an anthropocentric activity and practically no processes exist that seriously exclude humans as stakeholders (this problem is intensified by the fact that design is also dominated by a WEIRD – western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic – view that lacks the methods and vocabulary to …

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Tools For An Unknown Prospect, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis Jul 2021

Tools For An Unknown Prospect, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis

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Unknown Prospect is an assemblage and collaboration with Ochre that responds to extractive industry. I am exploring methods of design in relation with the more-than-human as an alternative to design research and practices that serve infinite production and capitalist culture. Ochres are not only mineral pigment, but terrestrial beings that have an ancient relationship with human culture. I enlist these geological interlocutors in creative work and printmaking to make drawings, maps, and books that extend beyond the colonial record. Ochre not only makes color material, it activates its own agency in world-making. It realizes the desert as more than barren, …

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Activating Design For Biodiversity, Zach Camozzi, Louise St. Pierre, Charlotte Falk Jul 2021

Activating Design For Biodiversity, Zach Camozzi, Louise St. Pierre, Charlotte Falk

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This paper documents a research project that has taken place over five years in the Emily Carr Industrial Design program. Our aim was to uncover methods to connect designers with nature, and to gain insight into how understanding our interdependence might change the way that designers work and prioritize. The act of practicing design with more-than-humans has effectively challenged human-centred design and activated deeper awareness of the implications of our design work. Over 160 Industrial design students, and 6 faculty members have been re-learning our place in the world as dependent among, and interdependent with, all other forms of life. …

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Regenerative Practice As Transformative Design Framework, Yari Or Jul 2021

Regenerative Practice As Transformative Design Framework, Yari Or

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Regenerative practice is a theory of transformative practice which centers reconnection and being-in-relation as key practices of eco-social change in societies of the global North. It is a practical theory of social change that theorizes the interlinking of the earth's natural ecosystem, social relations and individual well-being. The objective of regenerative practice design is the re-centering of human environments, learning environments, pedagogies, and services towards reconnection, decolonization, and just action now. The short paper outlines a design framework for the emergence of reconnection and being-in-relation as processes that support the decolonization between humans and with more-than-human nature.

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Interconnected Futures: Material Practices And Knowledge-Based Systems In The Academy, Angela Kilford, Faith Kane, Sonya Withers Jul 2021

Interconnected Futures: Material Practices And Knowledge-Based Systems In The Academy, Angela Kilford, Faith Kane, Sonya Withers

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More than ever, the role of textile design in environmental, economic, and social crises globally is being revealed. This presents a challenge to activate textile design towards positive change through centring practices that are relational, place-based, and deeply attuned to justice and the wellbeing of our planet: Areas of concern that have been embedded in indigenous ways of Te Moana-nui-a-kiwa for over a millennium. However, as wāhine who whakapapa Te Moana-nui-a-kiwa and Pākehā, we are experiencing tensions when we facilitate authentic knowledge-based systems and material practices that were once naturally entangled to nature, people, and the wellbeing of society. Within …

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Calendar Collective, Kalyani Tupkary Jul 2021

Calendar Collective, Kalyani Tupkary

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Calendars increasingly play a fundamental role in establishing our everyday rhythms, shaping our consciousness of temporality. But these tools are not neutral. They codify values and behaviour while obscuring the politics of time embedded in their representation. After all, how we represent time affects how we conceptualize time. Calendar Collective is a design-led research investigation that challenges the normative understanding of time as linear, objective and neutral. In this investigation, I use calendar as a subversive tool to dismantle current hegemonic time structures and rebuild plural structures. As a designer from a previously colonized country, I employ calendar as a …

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Práticas De Ensino Para Designers Sentipensantes, Karine Freire, Chiara Del Gaudio Jul 2021

Práticas De Ensino Para Designers Sentipensantes, Karine Freire, Chiara Del Gaudio

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Neste trabalho, refletimos sobre como se pode ensinar o Design como forma de estar e participar no mundo. Identificamos no conceito de colaboração, uma quebra necessária ao modo dominante ensinado globalmente em escolas de design, caracterizado pelo ethos individualista da sociedade capitalista. Contudo, diversos pesquisadores da área apontam a necessidade de uma maior compreensão sobre os modos de ensino e as competências necessárias aos futuros designers para participar de processos colaborativos. Para tanto, discutiremos aqui a necessidade de compreender e superar as limitações da forma pela qual a colaboração em design é praticada e compreendida. Em muitos processos de design …

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Comunidades Autônomas: Construção De Cenários Para Populações Em Vulnerabilidade No Covid-19, Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Luana Duarte Fuentefria, Lúcia Kaplan Jul 2021

Comunidades Autônomas: Construção De Cenários Para Populações Em Vulnerabilidade No Covid-19, Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Luana Duarte Fuentefria, Lúcia Kaplan

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Este trabalho é um esforço coletivo para tentar alavancar a autonomia das comunidades mais afetadas pela pandemia do Covid-19 e despertar novas reflexões sobre a oportunidade de construir futuros alternativos. Para isso, utilizamos o método de Cenários Orientados pelo Design, um exercício de suporte ao desenvolvimento de estratégias por meio da criação de visões compartilhadas e de comunicação de outros futuros possíveis. Por meio desse método, é possível navegar pelo processo de projeto, fomentando o diálogo e negociação entre diversos atores. Contamos com a colaboração de especialistas e cidadãos, em rodadas de contato síncrono e assíncrono, perseguindo o objetivo de …

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The Tools And Methods Towards Liberatory Joy - Research Through Faraoyść, Nour Jaoude Abou, Julia Szagdaj, Anna Lathrop Jul 2021

The Tools And Methods Towards Liberatory Joy - Research Through Faraoyść, Nour Jaoude Abou, Julia Szagdaj, Anna Lathrop

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How do you imagine alternatives if you either don’t have the space for it, or are being restrained from imagining? Faraoyść - the shared emoLon of joy liberated from systems of oppression, which creates a portal towards possible new realiLes - is a method that facilitates the imaginaLon of alternaLves to our current reality currently determined by what is known, what is assumed, and what stops one from imagining. We created and developed tools to culLvate and evoke faraoyść that involved poetry wriLng, culturally-specific storytelling, music, co-design, and the acLon of naming the self and objects. These tools resulted in …

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Navigating A Bipoc Identity Through Solidarity Design Labor, Dave Pabellon Jul 2021

Navigating A Bipoc Identity Through Solidarity Design Labor, Dave Pabellon

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This short paper uses experiences as a design practitioner, an activist, and a 2nd generation immigrant as a means to understand and define “good work”, and how that work can assist in navigating one’s identity. The “good work” is self-defined by the author as labor produced in solidarity with communities in need of support. Through the obsession with work, albeit “good work”, one can ultimately lose sight of their own identity through assimilation. Or at the very least, be forced into a work-first lifestyle where constant code-switching is necessary, which forces the siloing off of each identity lens, never to …

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White Skin, Brown Soil: A White Woman’S Search For Identity, Culture, And Belonging On Stolen Lands, Sarah Johnstone Jul 2021

White Skin, Brown Soil: A White Woman’S Search For Identity, Culture, And Belonging On Stolen Lands, Sarah Johnstone

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This research responds to the eventual (and very necessary) process of dismantling and unlearning the white Australian culture in favour of pluriversal, decolonial, and relational ecologies. However, the ways in which we go about collectively re-imagining this future is unclear. This research documents my own personal journey to explore and integrate my Celtic ancestry so that it can be a source of wisdom and inspiration for assisting myself and other white people for co-creating regenerative and pluralistic futures alongside indigenous and culturally diverse migrants on the lands of so-called Australia. This study is contextualised through a brief reflection on an …

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Staying Diasporic: Centering Migrant And Diasporic Ways Of Being In Design, Yénika Castillo Muñoz Jul 2021

Staying Diasporic: Centering Migrant And Diasporic Ways Of Being In Design, Yénika Castillo Muñoz

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Migration and diaspora are phenomenons that are continuously shaping the world, and that are caused and informed by colonial structures. The communities in diaspora are held together by particular ways of imagining and relating with the homeland, the host culture, and themselves, touching back into the local. In the experience of migrating and becoming part of a diaspora, our identities shift, as we enter a state of tension between total assimilation and resistance, questioning our national hegemonic values and ways of being. As a designer with migrated roots, I would like to share some experiences and thoughts about working in …

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Pictogramas, Comunicacion Intercultural Y Diseño Participativo, Nathaly Pinto, Andrea Botero Jul 2021

Pictogramas, Comunicacion Intercultural Y Diseño Participativo, Nathaly Pinto, Andrea Botero

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Reflexionamos sobre el proceso y los resultados preliminares de un proyecto participativo que tiene como objetivo apoyar y dise ar de manera colaborativa un sistema de pictogramas para los procesos de comunicaci n intercultural con y para comunidades ind genas del Ecuador. El proyecto construye sobre la larga tradici n de comunicaci n comunitaria ind gena que ha sido un importante espacio intercultural de resistencia para los pueblos ind genas de Ecuador. Durante el proyecto hemos unido esfuerzos con j venes representantes de distintas nacionalidades amaz nicas motivados por la necesidad de compartir informaci n y visibilizar la situaci n …

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Mirada Al Futuro A Raíz De Un Experimento Educativo Sobre Diseño Y Género, Marcelo Zambrano, Mariana Salgado, Omar Mendoza, Mari De Mater O’́Neill, Bryan Delgado Jul 2021

Mirada Al Futuro A Raíz De Un Experimento Educativo Sobre Diseño Y Género, Marcelo Zambrano, Mariana Salgado, Omar Mendoza, Mari De Mater O’́Neill, Bryan Delgado

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Actualmente, presenciamos transformaciones en ámbitos interconectados como la educación y el diseño; podemos reconocer estos cambios en la creciente digitalización de procesos educativos, en la amplia oferta virtual de cursos de especialización en diseño o en la diversificación de recursos utilizados en educación y en diseño. Sin embargo, aunque estas temáticas pueden considerarse amplias, aún quedan vacíos reflexivos no abordados a profundidad, como la formación en diseño o las diferentes perspectivas para pensar y hacer diseño. En este contexto, un grupo de diseñadoras decidió organizar una certificación en línea que aborde estas cuestiones desde posiciones críticas planteadas a partir de …

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