Design, Archive and Memory

Peters Rada, Victoria Eugenia (Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano)

Guerrero, Andrea Lorena (Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano)

Páez Vanegas, Leonardo (Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano)

Helena Barbosa (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal - online)

Justification

This space invites researchers, mainly Colombian and Latin American, to dialogue about the building of archives (of images, texts, objects) as a Design exercise and process, as well as about the possibility of understanding the artifacts of the past as a source of historical research for design and, in a broad sense, for the history of material culture.

Designers must approach the social context in which they act and participate critically in the processes which give value to objects (Mogrovejo and Klein, 2015). We propose a dialogue from the concept of Klaus Krippendorf (2006), in which every "artifact", product of the human activity of designing, transcends its relations of form and function and reveals itself above all as an element giving meaning, of significance for people. A detailed analysis of the archives will broaden the historical perspective of the phenomena of design, art, material culture of our country and contribute to the recovery, study and dissemination of a cultural heritage.

The exercise of producing new archives for the study of the history of design is understood from the perspective of Didi-Huberman (2012) as a design process in itself, which involves both the research that provides information of the context, and the imagination that is activated to complete those empty spaces that are natural in the archive and memory and which gives an order, a prefiguration that makes them knowable. Diversifying the sources (archives) of the history of design allows us to reinterpret the facts from other and new perspectives.

Objective

To dialogue around the activity of building archives (of images, texts, objects) as a Design exercise and process, as well as around the possibility of understanding the artifacts of the past as a source of historical research for design and, in a broad sense, for the history of material culture. This space invites researchers, mainly Colombian and Latin American, to discuss necessary issues around the history of design to propose a joint agenda of work and forms of exchange.