PHASE II. DESIGN RESEARCH
Desenvelopment of the methodology in embryonic workshops
(Documentation phase) October 2013
INTRODUCTIONUsing research and design, the cultural and emotional values of the communities involved with the technique and the artifact should be maintained. This becomes a challenge since the new family of products to be developed must combine them, searching where those values converge or diverge, and, also, the necessary ones to appeal to a global commerce must be integrated.
Based in these guidelines, two methodologies previously used in research are selected. In these methodologies the artifact is, in itself, the articulatory element of the research. “Cultural Artifacts as emotional catalysts and social mediators in Design Research” (Ornelas & Gregory, 2011) and “Artifact Analysis” (Martin & Hanington, 2012) DESCRIPTIONAn experimental methodology will be implemented in a series of embryonic workshops. Using this model as model of procedure, the artisan and the facilitator will be put in contact through the cultural artifact.
“A Cultural Artifact is defined as an artifact, -tangible or not- that has imbedded meaning for a socio-cultural group and therefore has potential to elicit emotions in individuals”. (Ornelas & Gregory, 2011) In order to do so a team made of facilitators (designers) with experience in artisan techniques will travel to each location to observe, analyze, and empathize with the artifact´s creation process, with the artisan, and with the context in which it is developed. This will produce more relevant information, which otherwise remains hidden in the own participants and is even unknown to its producers. This immersion will serve to provide information by the method of daily sampling of experiences, photographs, cultural studies, probes, contextual research and several different forms of observation and documentation focused on an integral vision of the researched users and territory. “The emphasis of artifact analysis on the object itself” Artifact analysis asks: what do objects have to say about people and their culture, time and place? The researcher is attempting to understand the substance of the object and what it says through its material, aesthetic and interactive qualities". (Martin & Hanington, 2012) The research will be done about the design, through the design, and for the design, that is, the previous research is based in the historical, aesthetic, and perceptive part, since it is actually the reference material, the artifact, what provides the information. The research done by means of the design is established by the design process itself, including the research in materials, the developed work, and the recording and communication of the stages, the experiments, and the design iterations; and the final objective of this research for the design is the creation of an new artifact that participates in the essence of the initial one, but with a new series of characteristics that allow it to adapt to the different conditions for which it is being developed, avoiding the part that links it exclusively to the place where it is produced. One of the objectives of the use of this methodology is to enable the cultural and emotional values attached to the artifact to not be lost, but to share them with the facilitator so s/he in turn can transfer them to the new object. |
Images: Local Crafts, Oaxaca by Paul Mijangos & Carmen Malvar.
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Educational Toy. Why?
QUOTES
*1. Toys for Object and Role of Mastery. By Brian Sutton-Smith . Educational Toys in America: 1800 to the Present. University of Vermont.
*2.
-Bruner, J. S. (1961). "The Act of Discovery". ''Harvard Educational Review 31'‘
-Sumrongthong, B. (2008) Curiosity Based Learning, International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI) Madrid, Spain. Available online at
http://www.iated.org/concrete2/paper_detail.php?paper_id=5293
-LEGO Learning Institute
http://learninginstitute.lego.com
*3.
*4. The Child at the Heart of the Modern Utopia . Carlos Perez. Curator .Exhibition Catalog: Toys of the Avant_-Garde.Museo Picasso Malaga 2011
IMAGES:
•http://beersandbeans.com/2010/06/07/street-photos-oaxaca-mexico/
•Aladdin Toys: Les Joguines De Torres-garcia
Expo. Valencia / Barcelona 1998 . Perez, C /Garcia-sedas, P De Torres
Paul Mijangos & Carmen Malvar
*1. Toys for Object and Role of Mastery. By Brian Sutton-Smith . Educational Toys in America: 1800 to the Present. University of Vermont.
*2.
-Bruner, J. S. (1961). "The Act of Discovery". ''Harvard Educational Review 31'‘
-Sumrongthong, B. (2008) Curiosity Based Learning, International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI) Madrid, Spain. Available online at
http://www.iated.org/concrete2/paper_detail.php?paper_id=5293
-LEGO Learning Institute
http://learninginstitute.lego.com
*3.
*4. The Child at the Heart of the Modern Utopia . Carlos Perez. Curator .Exhibition Catalog: Toys of the Avant_-Garde.Museo Picasso Malaga 2011
IMAGES:
•http://beersandbeans.com/2010/06/07/street-photos-oaxaca-mexico/
•Aladdin Toys: Les Joguines De Torres-garcia
Expo. Valencia / Barcelona 1998 . Perez, C /Garcia-sedas, P De Torres
Paul Mijangos & Carmen Malvar
By Item
IMAGES
01. Artist unknown (North Central Mexico), articulated Conchero toys, c. 1930, Wood, cardboard, bottle caps, fur, cloth, feathers .San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection
02. Alenxander Girard Wooden Dolls. Circa 1963
03. Ninjago Prototypes. Lego Circa
04. Vienna 1920. Exhibition Catalog: Toys of the Avant_-Garde.Museo Picasso Malaga 2011
05. San Blas Panama . Girard Collection .Collection of folk art and toys from Girard Foundation
06.
07. Colours Tree Packaging by Gonzalo Arbutti . Manufactured. Mompetitart.Com
08.Ebriades. Cantos de mujeres mayas . Book With Poetry And Native Drawings From Tzotzil ( Chiapas) Woman. The Tzotzil are Mayan people of the central Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico.
09. Tzotzil Book. Inside Part 2. Conjuros y Ebriades , Cantos De Mujeres Maya, Recopilación by Ambar Past .
10. Traditional Assembly wood Toy.
11. Geometrias de la imaginacion. Diseno e Iconografia de Oaxaca. Arte Popular de Mexico 2001.
12. Aladdin Toys: Les Joguines De Torres-garcia
Expo. Valencia / Barcelona 1998 . Perez, C /Garcia-sedas, P De Torres
01. Artist unknown (North Central Mexico), articulated Conchero toys, c. 1930, Wood, cardboard, bottle caps, fur, cloth, feathers .San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection
02. Alenxander Girard Wooden Dolls. Circa 1963
03. Ninjago Prototypes. Lego Circa
04. Vienna 1920. Exhibition Catalog: Toys of the Avant_-Garde.Museo Picasso Malaga 2011
05. San Blas Panama . Girard Collection .Collection of folk art and toys from Girard Foundation
06.
07. Colours Tree Packaging by Gonzalo Arbutti . Manufactured. Mompetitart.Com
08.Ebriades. Cantos de mujeres mayas . Book With Poetry And Native Drawings From Tzotzil ( Chiapas) Woman. The Tzotzil are Mayan people of the central Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico.
09. Tzotzil Book. Inside Part 2. Conjuros y Ebriades , Cantos De Mujeres Maya, Recopilación by Ambar Past .
10. Traditional Assembly wood Toy.
11. Geometrias de la imaginacion. Diseno e Iconografia de Oaxaca. Arte Popular de Mexico 2001.
12. Aladdin Toys: Les Joguines De Torres-garcia
Expo. Valencia / Barcelona 1998 . Perez, C /Garcia-sedas, P De Torres
QUOTES:
*1. The Magic of a People./El Encanto de un pueblo. Folk Art and Toys from the Collection of the Girard Foundation. Alexander Girard. The Viking Press. New York.1968
*2.
*1. The Magic of a People./El Encanto de un pueblo. Folk Art and Toys from the Collection of the Girard Foundation. Alexander Girard. The Viking Press. New York.1968
*2.