Ideas of Autonomía: Buzzwords, borderlands and research through design
Ann Light · Strategic Design Research Journal · 2018
Chiara Del Gaudio commented on "world-making": I do share this, mostly in terms of the power of the process and of focusing and staying in the process.Staying in the process, staying in the present.The power of staying in the present in meditation, and so the power of staying in the process, in a design process in the present, a process for the process itself.It might seems confused...I haven't found a better way to define this idea yet... Arturo Escobar commented on "I would argue that crafting a more accommodating and creative set of futures is an end in itself, in which people can find their meaning as co-producers instead of aspiring to a replacement set of materialistic goals": Great idea.We have become the latter, hence the need to ontologically and politically affirm the former.1 Andrea has invited me to consider the idea of Autonomía, and she will probably not be surprised to learn that I like the ideas behind it a great deal. 2 I will be listing some of these crossovers as part of my work to understand how our views correspond.I am not normally given to citing myself more than anyone else in a piece of text.