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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024. 

Transition Design: a Formative Route From Identities and Artisan Knowledge

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a formative route to approach the elucidation of a transition Design located in the identities and local productive processes. This proposal is based on forms of articulation between Design and some artisanal knowledge of the Colombian territory, characterized by a horizontal dialogue between Design students and artisan groups. The article will focus on an account of our formative route through the analysis of three moments of our pedagogical exercise: a) the conceptual and methodological preparation for the work between Design and crafts; b) the journey as a learning methodology; c) participatory Design work, as a setting for learning from experience and dialogue between knowledge. We will review three participator Design experiences developed with artisan communities and associations in the departments of Putumayo, Boyacá and Casanare in Colombia, between 2015-2017. As we will see, the results of these articulations have translated into evidence of the students’ formative process and in Design projects oriented to preserve, enhance and strengthen the artisanal knowledge of the groups with which we have worked.

Keywords:

Artisanal knowledge, participatory Design, teaching-learning, transition Design, travel as a method.