1st Edition
Collaborative Social Design with Mexican Indigenous Communities Critical Craft and Transformative Practices
Foreword: Collectivizing Design by Maria del Carmen Castillo Cisneros
Foreword: The Other by Maddalena Forcella
Part One: The Framework
Chapter One: What Does it Mean to Collaborate? A Study in Power
Chapter Two: Framing the Practice: Globalization, Social Design, and Proximities of Design
Chapter Three: Articulating Cultural Differences: Indigenism, Politics, and Social Context in México
Part Two: The Journey
Chapter Four: Design as a Practice of Correspondence: El Hacer – The Making
Chapter Five: Field Notes: Interviews, Workshops, and Prototypes
Closing Chapter: Exploring Continuity, Measuring impact, and the Legacy and Future of Social Design Practice
Afterword: Proximity and the Ethics of Engagement by Barbara Adams
Biography
Carmen Malvar holds a PhD in social design, is a member of the international GIS research group for Retail and Service Futures as part of the Design Research Society (DRS) and collaborator with the UNESCO Chair of Sustainability Barcelona with 20 years of experience on leading teamwork based on design practice. Carmen has worked on projects developed with indigenous communities in the highlands of México and is currently researching the social and ecological impact of some global industries and their backstage production, designing and implementing strategies where their production process and distribution chain shares the concern with stakeholders and the community. She is the founder of CADA Foundation, a platform for understanding cultural heritage through social design. Carmen works regularly as a consultant and speaker for various institutions, local governments, foundations, and academia.
