Interdesigning Symposium
RMIT Campus
Nov 2023
The fourth act was implemented in the context of the Interdesigning Symposium, organised by academics from universities from Australia and New Zealand, which was the first public meeting of an emergent network that aim to focus on pluriversal and decolonial approaches to design education.
This act was a very special one for many reasons. As stated before, the acts are collective experiences for re-situating in more critical positions, but until now as exploratory research activities, without the expectation of a specific outcome, or in relation to a forthcoming process.
In this case, the organisers were interested into that collective “re-situatedness” were pointed towards action for the future network. This “actionable” expectation had to be integrated to the reflective and creative nature of the act. This was managed by creating a final section after the creative enactments where participants had to write a message to the organisers in relation to the future of the network.
This message had to be written and expressed from that “otherwise” perspective that resulted from the reflective and creative explorations from their cosmovisions, and added to a metaphorical (but existant) “bag for the future”, which is inspired by a text from Bolivian decolonial thinker Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui that speaks about the relationship between time and temporalities in the Aymara’s cosmovision.
By this very simple but powerful action, the experience of the act was redirected towards an specific and concrete “outcome”, opening interesting possibilities for its implementation within design processes.
RMIT Campus
Nov 2023
The fourth act was implemented in the context of the Interdesigning Symposium, organised by academics from universities from Australia and New Zealand, which was the first public meeting of an emergent network that aim to focus on pluriversal and decolonial approaches to design education.
This act was a very special one for many reasons. As stated before, the acts are collective experiences for re-situating in more critical positions, but until now as exploratory research activities, without the expectation of a specific outcome, or in relation to a forthcoming process.
In this case, the organisers were interested into that collective “re-situatedness” were pointed towards action for the future network. This “actionable” expectation had to be integrated to the reflective and creative nature of the act. This was managed by creating a final section after the creative enactments where participants had to write a message to the organisers in relation to the future of the network.
This message had to be written and expressed from that “otherwise” perspective that resulted from the reflective and creative explorations from their cosmovisions, and added to a metaphorical (but existant) “bag for the future”, which is inspired by a text from Bolivian decolonial thinker Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui that speaks about the relationship between time and temporalities in the Aymara’s cosmovision.
By this very simple but powerful action, the experience of the act was redirected towards an specific and concrete “outcome”, opening interesting possibilities for its implementation within design processes.