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Caring for the land and territorio as a method for participatory design: [Cuidar la tierra y el territorio como método de diseño participativo]
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå Institute of Design.ORCID iD: 0009-0004-2120-9257
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå Institute of Design.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7417-0745
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå Institute of Design.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå School of Architecture.
2026 (English)In: Diseña, ISSN 0718-8447, no 28, article id 6Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Rural communities in Europe that defend land-based practices and livelihoods face pressures to modernize in ways that reproduce a nature‒culture dualism. Design methods informed by Latin American ontologies seek to help communities identify and resist capitalist enclosure, make visible and legitimize local ways of knowing and traditions, and foster learning processes toward autonomy. Here, we report on our experiences in land-oriented, community-led participatory design, making material, communal artifacts in Italy and Spain. The artifacts range from animal stables to bee apiaries. We examine the artifacts and their makings through a lens of territorio (territory) to demonstrate a different land-based reality that resists colonial oppression. In these realities, communities are not mere observers of the changes around them, but they make their own present through the making of artifacts. These relational design methods supporting planetary co-habitability require care-full community-led engagement with the land.

Abstract [es]

Las comunidades rurales de Europa que defienden prácticas y medios de vida basados en la tierra enfrentan presiones para modernizarse de maneras que no hacen más que reproducir el dualismo naturaleza‒cultura. Los métodos de diseño informados por ontologías latinoamericanas buscan ayudar a las comunidades a identificar y resistir el cercamiento capitalista, visibilizar y legitimar los saberes y las tradiciones locales, y fomentar procesos de aprendizaje orientados a la autonomía. Aquí damos cuenta de nuestras experiencias de diseño participativo orientado a la tierra y liderado por la comunidad, mediante la elaboración de artefactos materiales comunitarios en Italia y España. Los artefactos abarcan desde establos para animales hasta colmenas. Examinamos estos artefactos y su proceso de elaboración a través de la categoría de territorio para mostrar una realidad distinta, basada en la tierra, que resiste la opresión colonial. En estas realidades, las comunidades no son meras observadoras de los cambios que las rodean, sino que construyen su propio presente a través de la elaboración de artefactos. Estos métodos de diseño relacional que apoyan la cohabitabilidad planetaria requieren una vinculación cuidadosa con la tierra, liderada por la comunidad.

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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , 2026. no 28, article id 6
Keywords [en]
land-based, participatory design, Latin American ontologies, rural, Europe
Keywords [es]
basado en la tierra, diseño participativo, ontologías latinoamericanas, rural, Europa
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Design
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design; sustainability
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-249238DOI: 10.7764/disena.28.Article.6OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-249238DiVA, id: diva2:2034132
Available from: 2026-01-30 Created: 2026-01-30 Last updated: 2026-02-03Bibliographically approved

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