[-empyre-] Engineering the University : Week 04 : Prieto-Nanez and Pérez-Bustos

[Prieto Nanez, Fabian Mauricio]

Apreciada Tania

I welcome this account of your ethnographic work as a way to start our dialogue!. 

I recognize the shift you present, from embroidery as a precarious labor  to a language that could embroider the technology, has bonds with the kind of dialogues that took place in this specific case.  I started to compare it with other methods which highlight  consensual participation as the primary goal. However, some other approaches to design stresses the disparities in terms of power relations, or as Helen Verran suggests, in terms of collective memories of knowledge. From my understanding, I found that your proposal put dissent as a productive practice and, in the context of global design, also as an ethical approach that instead of thinking for others, invites to thinking with others. 

Also, I'm interested in the temporal dimension of this whole process, mostly because it could also be compared, with other uses of ethnography in design.  I'm fascinated on how you introduce the expertise of women. I wonder about the time that they had expended in learning and embodying their techniques, and how this was translated into your process.

Do you think we can discuss the links between this embodiment of technique and the invitation to thinking with others? 


Fellow Research "Learning to see Systems" INTERSECT Program
http://seeingsystems.illinois.edu/
PhD student, Institute of Communications Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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De: empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au [empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au] en nombre de Tania Pérez Bustos [tpbustos at gmail.com]
Enviado: martes, 24 de marzo de 2015 12:28
Para: soft_skinned_space
Asunto: Re: [-empyre-]  Engineering the University : Week 04 : Prieto-Nanez and Pérez-Bustos

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