Resumen: El presente artículo expone los alcances de una intervención de diseño realizada en la localidad de Llahualco, Región de Los Lagos, Chile, a artesanas textiles con ascendencia mapuche-williche. En particular, busca tensionar el concepto de desarrollo, en función del contexto intercultural donde se sitúa, analizando la fi gura de la mujer en la transmisión de conocimiento heredado y sus nuevos escenarios de validación. Junto con lo anterior, expone cómo la asimilación de nuevas técnicas artesanales, sus apropiaciones y nuevos usos, va generando nuevas tradiciones textiles para los territorios multiculturales del sur de Chile. Se espera realizar una aproximación a los principios de integración cultural aplicables a procesos de diseño, que permitan prospectar el desafío de la interculturalidad en los territorios de la globalización.Palabras clave: Multiculturalidad, interculturalidad, globalización, diseño textil.Abstract: Th is article demonstrates the scope of a design intervention carried out in Llahualco, Los Lagos Region, Chile, with textile artisans of Mapuche-Williche ancestry. In particular, it seeks to question the concept of development as a function of the intercultural context of the village, analyzing the role of women in the transmission of inherited knowledge and new scenarios for validation of that knowledge. Furthermore, the article demonstrates how the assimilation of new artisanal techniques, along with their appropriations and novel uses, is generating new textile traditions for the multicultural territories of southern Chile. Th is project off ers an approach to the principles of cultural integration applicable to design processes, thus enabling us to explore the challenge of interculturality in territories open to globalization.

The Budi Lake territories are inhabited by Mapuche Lafkenche communities, where their artisans develop the pilwa -bag woven in Chupón fiber- as a traditional craft. The pilwa has been recognized by state organizations for its cultural and ecological value. However, its raw material, the “kai” or Chupón, is declared a vulnerable species. This condition has generated in institutions such as FIA Foundation for Agricultural Innovation, to allocate public resources for its conservation, introducing foreign concepts into the territory for the plant cultivation, which includes the inclusion of plastic in the Mapuche territories. The present paper investigates the cultural aspects of resistance to this vision, and in particular, to the elements of the Mapuche worldview attributed to the species and native forest. The study is based on interviews with Mapuche leaders, indigenous communities and families of Pilwa artisans, who in 2018 raised a project to restore the native forest, for the preservation of the Chupón species and the handcrafted tradition. This project was not funded by the Common Fund. Despite the Mapuche artisan families of the Pilwa, they have started a native forest conservation process in private estates to promote the sustainable land use and maintain the cultural relationship with nature. The findings are expected to support the future community presentation of a native forest restoration project around Lake Budi.