Interespacios. El periodismo cultural y la transformación de la percepción estética mundial.

Abstract

TRANSITION DESIGN is an emerging practice within design that aims to create alternatives lifestyles beneficial for the economy, society and the planet. With this goal in mind, this design practice is developed in domains such as system of stakeholders, public polices or interactions between organisations. Carnegie Mellon University School of Design is offering doctoral studies in TRANSITION DESIGN, and interdisciplinary organisations such as Reos Partners or Forum for the Future develop projects that can be considered of reference. TRANSITION DESIGN is yet in a process of practical experimentation and critical investigation that can also be understood as a creative process in transition. The design led transitions to sustainability advocated are achieved through the creation of visions and organisational structures that create conditions for sustainable lifestyles, rather than ‘repairing’ inefficiencies in the existing material environment. Those creative transformations are collaborative, interdisciplinary practices with users, communities, where the designers’ role becomes that of an expert designer participating in a collective design agency. Cooperatives, as modes of organisation promoting alternative socio-economic models and stronger sociality apear as a fertile ground where TRANSITION DESIGN practice emerge. A case study presented here is La Borda, a housing cooperative of shared ownership born as a satellite project of the neighbour platform Can Batllo. In this context, TRANSITION DESIGN can be understood as a design practice contributing to collective emancipatory processes. Research Group Design Processes: Innovative Practices in Art & Design. EINA, centro Universitario de diseno y arte adscrito a la Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona – Research Project MINECO Generating Knowledge in Artistic Research: Toward