Abstract

CASTELBLANCO CAICEDO, Diana Zoraida. From designing technique to designing practices in the city. Rev. Lasallista Investig. [online]. 2014, vol.11, n.2, pp.99-109. ISSN 1794-4449.

Although knowledge approaches urban studies from the specialization of certain disciplines (architecture, urban sociology, urban geography and urban politics, among others), the modernization processes (Escobar, 2002) and their forms of economic, technologic and cultural development have brought the emergence of polyvalent, heterogeneous and casual cities that demand analytical and critical approaches but also, -and most importantly- creative approaches to cover the complexity and the heterogeneity of the urban practices, the production of the territory as a network of events and places with a meaning for the inhabitants and the city's shift from a physical and infrastructural space to a circumstantial and situational space. This means urban approaches in which thinking on actions to produce actions -political thinking- and not only thinking on things to produce other things -technical thinking- can have a meaning. This is, then, technique at the politics' service. Industrial design, as one of the knowledge areas that apparently aim to progress and development, is nowadays a practice that revolutionizes its own technical paradigms -thinking on things to produce other things-, and is about to think on technique as a mean to serve ethics, aesthetic and urban politics. To do so, industrial design seems to serve a certain particular conformation of the territory, according to the polyvalent, heterogeneous and casual experiences and expectations of the citizens. The industrial design in the city favors what some theoretical authors call a "certain modernity forever and everywhere" (Escobar, 2002, 32), as its presence in the city goes permanent, not anymore as an invariable and immutable element, but as a language and as a dynamic experience.

Keywords : design; daily life; city; technique; politics; aesthetic.

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