Autonomous design and the emergent transnational critical design studies field

Escobar, Arturo

doi:10.4013/sdrj.2018.112.10

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“…Reduced shipping distances, profiting from local potentialities Design for sustainability and social innovation (Manzini, 2008). (Manzini, 2016;Escobar, 2018;Wahl, 2019).…”

Section: Distributed Distributed Network Bioproduction and Increased Resiliencementioning

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“…This type of emerging design is the last type of economy addressed; as regenerative is also possible. Two other design designations can contribute; autonomous design by the sociologist ArturoEscobar (2018) and regenerative culture design by the biologist and doctor in natural design . , in his work "autonomous and emerging design," pointed: the majority of designers around the world wish to involve more profound issues of the emergency crises.…”

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COVID-19 and the emergency of new economies for the design of a new world

Barauna¹,

Stafford

Farina³

et al. 2021

SDRJ

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The COVID-19 pandemic situation has proven the fragilities of the current lifestyles of humanity. The previously established patterns, as they were, a predominately linear type of economy, and the manners for generating work and income, were based on production and consumption. However, that proved to be unsustainable due to the necessity of social isolation. In this context, the aim of this article is to resume the emergency for finding new ways of thinking and acting in the economy and to explore emerging views. A documental research and narrative literature review were performed to foster this discussion. A comparative framework based on four models of new economies that have arisen in the literature between the end of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI was constructed. Design evolution is related to circular, distributed, creative, and regenerative economy as an agent for change. Then, in conclusion, the authors reported on strategies and actions that have been created during the pandemic to corroborate on views posed by the new economies and design culture that are constantly being transformed in the eminence of contributing to a new material and immaterial world.

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“…Reduced shipping distances, profiting from local potentialities Design for sustainability and social innovation (Manzini, 2008). (Manzini, 2016;Escobar, 2018;Wahl, 2019).…”

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COVID-19 and the emergency of new economies for the design of a new world

Barauna¹,

Stafford

Farina³

et al. 2021

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“…Esta estrategia de rediseñar y redireccionar el servicio de IBM para la confección de Big Sister como herramienta de investigación, en un sentido más general, constituye un medio para la descolonización de los diseños y dispositivos del Norte Global como Personality Insight. Tal como lo ha señalado Arturo Escobar (2018), el diseño moderno se ha transformado en un medio para la materialización de una modernidad/colonialidad que expande ontologías y concepciones del mundo que reclaman universalidad y superioridad, con lo que se borran y olvidan los contextos relacionales y situados. En este sentido, el resto de un diseño descolonial -o para la autonomía, como lo llama Escobar-consiste en problematizar las operaciones conceptuales y hegemónicas, sobre las que se fundan los instrumentos del sistema de desarrollo actual, generando diseños que permitan abrir futuros y relaciones alternativas que vayan más allá de la matriz eurocéntrica, individualista e instrumental (2017; 2018).…”

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“…En segundo lugar, la intervención metodológica sugiere ir más allá de las generalidades sobre el extractivismo de datos, para abordar estas operaciones de extracción colonialista, como las analizan Mejías y Couldry (2019) con un enfoque situado y contextual, recogiendo la experien-cia relacional y cotidiana de las personas oprimidas (Tygel y Kirsch, 2016). Es especialmente relevante, en contextos como el latinoamericano, de profundas inequidades y formas de colonialismo (véase Ricaurte, 2018), desarrollar dispositivos de investigación que activen las formas de autonomía, reconociendo las relaciones y vivencias de las personas e interpretando sus posibilidades (Escobar, 2018). Esto no quiere decir que en el diseño de los sistemas algorítmicos no se consideren sus contextos de implementación, sino que se vuelve clave interrogar cómo, quiénes y con qué intereses se definen los contextos de los sistemas algorítmicos (Seaver, 2015).…”

Section: Conclusión: Prototipos Para Pedagogías Descoloniales Ante La Opresión Algorítmicaunclassified

Descolonizando los sistemas algorítmicos: diseño crítico para la problematización de algoritmos y datos digitales desde el Sur

Tironi

Valderrama

2021

Pacla

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Este artículo propone reflexiones metodológicas y teóricas a partir del proyecto interdisciplinario “Identidades algorítmicas”. Iniciado en 2019 entre investigadores de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y la Universidad de Warwick (Reino Unido), busca comprender cómo la persona es configurada en tiempos de algoritmos y datos digitales. Para ello, diseñamos un prototipo de aplicación, llamada Big Sister, que emula los sistemas de elaboración de perfiles y recomendaciones algorítmicas de las grandes plataformas digitales. Este prototipo ha servido de dispositivo de investigación social en un doble sentido: por un lado, nos permitió producir conocimiento en un hacer y deshacer crítico y descolonial; por otro lado, a través de entrevistas de rastros digitales con participantes usuarios del prototipo, pudimos explorar en sus experiencias y estimular la reflexión acerca de las mediaciones de algoritmos en sus vidas. En este artículo, examinamos el proceso de prototipado de esta aplicación y algunos hallazgos sobre cómo personas en Chile comprenden, habitan y dan forma cotidianamente a datos y algoritmos. Recogiendo elementos de autores latinoamericanos como Arturo Escobar, Jesús Martín-Barbero y Paulo Freire, argumentamos que el prototipado de una aplicación puede avanzar hacia una aproximación “problematizadora” de la datificación y los sistemas algorítmicos en Latinoamérica.

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“…It is in this line of thought that he asks about the possibility of alternative traditions , in which so-called “traditional” cultures autonomously create solutions to contemporary environmental and social ills. As such, Escobar is not so worried about the need to “modernize” traditions as much as the possibility of the autonomous development of traditions themselves, or, as he puts it through an engagement with the thought of Gustavo Esteva (2015), the possibility to “change traditions traditionally” (Escobar, 2018a: 143). In this context, we can understand Escobar’s definition of autonomy, “the creation of conditions that permit the change of norms from inside or the capacity to change traditions traditionally.…”

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Decoloniality, communality, and anti-semitism

Woods

2019

Cultural Dynamics

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Although Latin American decolonial thinking has always maintained an interest in taking the theories and practices of the communities of Latin America’s colonized peoples seriously, the theorization of communality and communal systems has been a new focus of the last two decades. That is, the academic decolonial dedication to diversity and difference has recently been imagined as a pluriverse of communal systems. As such, this decolonial group of thinkers has been effectively demanding that the radical theories of communality produced by Indigenous communities of the Global South be taken seriously as real and viable alternatives to capitalism and representative democracy. Nevertheless, a critical engagement with Latin American decoloniality reveals a serious oversight in communal-oriented decoloniality: it fails to engage in a serious manner the millions throughout the world who are not or are perceived as not part of any community or are exiled from their community. To demonstrate this threat within the communal-oriented vision, one can look to another (de)colonial context ubiquitously overlooked in Latin American decolonial thought: Ireland. More precisely, as a reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses reveals, the communal-oriented Irish anti-colonialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries contained a common mode of modern anti-Semitism: Jews belong to no community and uproot and hollow out the life of any community they encounter. This article argues that although the pluriversal vision of communal-oriented decoloniality is explicitly opposed to the denigration, dismissal, or rejection of any community, it can still be characterized by this other mode of othering: the denigration, villainization, and oppression of persons who are perceived as embodiments of anti-communality.

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Autonomous design and the emergent transnational critical design studies field

Cited by 22 publications

References 17 publications

COVID-19 and the emergency of new economies for the design of a new world

COVID-19 and the emergency of new economies for the design of a new world

Descolonizando los sistemas algorítmicos: diseño crítico para la problematización de algoritmos y datos digitales desde el Sur

Decoloniality, communality, and anti-semitism

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