Profesor Fernando Alberto Álvarez Romero
y los creadores de Decolonizing Design
gracias. es un esfuerzo util y necesario.
quisiera también poder expresarme em portugués
but the colonization of my thoughts as an immigrant
brought here as a very young child
forces my fluidity in english even as I try to relearn my spanish.
thank you for your energy and your effort.
Rafael Fajardo
Associate Professor
Emergent Digital Practices
University of Denver
Colorado, USA
de origen Colombiano
> On Jun 30, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Fernando Alberto Alvarez Romero <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Professor Eduardo Corte-Real,
>
> You said : "So, to be honest, and no offense on that, decolonization is
> nothing but a buzz word in this case."
>
> It seem to me that professor, both professor Ken and you, explain perfectly
> the origins of some globlal colonization episodes in the world. Also, you
> have offered an interesting explanation about design and industry in some
> others episodes. I wonder about the next 524 years of sucessive forms of
> colonialism, at least in south-america context? Tacit, explicit, violent
> other ones: in forms of religions (like evangelization); politics (for
> instance, the inception of developed countries, undeveloped countries or
> third world countries. (La invención del Tercer Mundo:Construcción y
> deconstrucción del desarrollo, Arturo Escobar (2007) ; trades,
> technological transfers, (in industrial terms and economical ones in
> Western inventions); philosophilally (for example Kant idea of indigenous
> people as "savages" very weird in modern epoch, like a medieval thought).
> Among others sorts of colonial practices and consecuenses. (
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228247157_Third_World_Underdevelopment
> )
>
> Currently, as economic system of neoliberal politics with policies of
> kinds of trades(Last example: OECD recommends to Colombia that we need to
> increase an extractivist activity in order to raise the capital to
> industrialization and increase innovation as a Nacional Innovation
> System). Clearly that is an unsustainable idea but, if Goverment are not
> willing with, it could affect the World Bank relations among others. It
> because, with a lot of respectfull professor, to some of us, decolonization
> is not a buzz word. Here is a serious research issue. (<
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)>. Also It is
> a hope, a cry in order to get our own design to face world and our own
> necessities apart of the unsustainable western concept of economic growth,
> Hegemonic designs, also inadecuate design politics, inapropiate meanings of
> design, and partial histories about. Like some of ideas that exposed Pedro
> Oliveira, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Danah Abdulla, Ece Canli, MattKiem, Tristan
> Schultz in their paper.
>
> Lo anterior, me hace escribir de nuevo en otro idioma, que a pesar de haber
> sido impuesto (de los conquistadores), es mi idioma de origen y exige a
> quien no lo hable una traducción como lo sugirió también el profesor
> Alfredo, si quiere continuar entendiendo (salir de su lógica y entrar en
> otro modo de pensamiento -Runasofia-) como acto de reciprocidad. Esto es un
> ejemplo del esfuerzo que se debe hacer por entender al otro, lo cual en
> algunas de las intervenciones, no se nota.
> Así, nosotros los -colonizados- hemos apropiado otros idiomas, otros
> diseños, otras filosofías, y como se ve en la historia, nos forzaron a
> negar nuestra filosofía (dicen que no se puede llamar filosofía al
> pensamiento Andino- o Pachasofia: La discusión puede leerse en Stermann: <
> https://es.scribd.com/doc/162855788/Filosofia-Andina-J-1997-Josef-Estermann-Antonio-Pena-Libro-Filosofia>,
> así mismo nuestra manera del diseño (puesto que se considera artesanía, o
> diseño no profesional, entre otros calificativos, y menos se ignora que se
> tenga un conocimiento tecnológico).
>
>
> *Fernando Alberto Álvarez Romero*
> *PROFESOR ASOCIADO II*
> PROGRAMA DE DISEÑO INDUSTRIAL
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