Rossana Bastías Castillo | Design Literacy. A Participatory Design Experience with Low-Income Older Adults
Rossana Bastías Castillo discussed her research article published in the special issue of Revista Chilena de Diseño, RChD: creación y pensamiento special issue Vol. 5 Núm. 8 (2020) on the theme of Design Literacy for All.
The editorial outlining the scope of special journal issue in Spanish and English is can be downloaded from this link RChD 2020 v5 n8 Editorial Espanol English Design Literacy
In her article titled Design Literacy. A Participatory Design Experience with Low-Income Older Adults, Bastías uses the Design literacy as an analytical frame to explore participatory Design carried out to implement a social program for older adults. She suggests that literacy in Design would be a necessary component for the configuration of socially situated responses in the implementation of social policies and projects. She reasons that it would contribute to closing socio-economic and cultural gaps. The article provides a conceptual link between visual literacy and participatory Design and suggests that socially situated graphic interventions could have a positive effect on innovation processes in the public sector. By undertaking this work, she provides essential insights into the field of social innovation. Bastías resignifies the experience of subjects who participated in the research project as a journey that goes from assistance to cooperation, relativizing the verticality of the relationship between the expert designer and the recipient of a designer’s interventions. The author suggests that participatory Design could be considered a two-way literacy experience in Design, insofar as the designer learns from the user, and the user who participates in the co-creation process, learns about Design.
Event recording in SPANISH (simultaneous interpretation by Pedro Pavez Gamboa)
Event recording in ENGLISH (simultaneous interpretation by Pedro Pavez Gamboa)
The talk is part of the Engage with Ideas monthly series, which explore the relationship between design, education, and society. Recordings from the past Engage with Ideas sessions are available here.
/// Rossana Bastías Castillo is a Professor of the School of Design and a senior researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (Center for Artistic Research) at the University of Valparaíso, Chile.
She is a Graphic Designer with a Degree in Design from the University of Valparaíso, a Master in Communication Management from the University of Barcelona, and a PhD in Design from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
She collaborates as an evaluator of research projects and grants for postgraduate studies with the Scientific and Technological Commission (Conicyt) in Chile. She is a member of the scientific committee of national and international scientific design journals.
She has carried out several research projects financed through competitive funds such as Fondecyt-ANID, Corfo, and Fondart. Her research lines are focused on design management, participatory design in social contexts, and the relationship between design and art. She has published several articles in books and national and international scientific journals. ///
/// Rossana Bastías Castillo, Profesora Titular de la Escuela de Diseño en la Universidad de Valparaíso-Chile. Diseñadora Gráfica y Licenciada en Diseño de la Universidad de Valparaíso. Máster en Gestión de la Comunicación por la Universidad de Barcelona. Doctora en Diseño por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Es investigadora principal del Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas de la Universidad de Valparaíso (CIA_UV). Es evaluadora de Proyectos de investigación y Becas para estudios de postgrado de la Comisión Científica y Tecnológica (Conicyt), Chile. Forma parte del Comité Científico de revistas científicas de diseño nacionales e internacionales.
Ha realizado diversas investigaciones en la línea de gestión del diseño, diseño participativo en contextos sociales y sobre la relación entre diseño y arte, financiados a través de fondos concursables entre los que se destacan: Fondecyt-ANID, Corfo, Fondart y Universidad de Valparaíso-Chile. En relación a estas líneas de investigación ha publicado diversos artículos en libros y revistas científicas nacionales e internacionales. ///
The paper can be access on the Revista Chilena de Diseño, RChD: creación y pensamiento portal on this link https://rchd.uchile.cl/index.php/RChDCP/article/view/57653
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