DISSOCONS: El diseño del campo a partir de haceres que no le pertenencen (ni le pertenecerán nunca)

Abstract

In this article, I am contracting the field of design by disassociating foreign practices adjectivized as “designs” (vernacular, indigenous, etc.) which I call Dessobons, an acronym by (read capital letters): by DEsigns of the South, of the Souths (plural), Others, by Other NameS. I expose prehistoric design as a disciplinary myth. I question modern archaeology and design for capturing temporalities of diverse peoples. I call for a deprojectualized design that embraces otherness without overshadowing it. I describe links between the West, development and design. I propose, from declassification, devolutionary artifacts to harmonize relations with colonized environments and peoples. I problematize the pluriverse when it homogenizes impluralizable existences (as worlds or universes) and, in the face of diverse pluriverses, I debate the attribution of its unique authorship to the Zapatista Movement. I introduce designorance as that which design ignores. Finally, I report contextualized Dessobons: Andean (sallqa, uywaña), Lakota (wakan) and Polynesian (vā, ancestral navigation revived), while I suggest designers and architects to experience the otherness in difference of malocas, igloos, rucas or tipis without translating them as “houses”.