2018. ¿Qué se teje en el ciberespacio? - Textile Project
(What is woven in cyberspace?)
* This project was made during the "Sewing and textile activism" class of the master's degree in design at Los Andes University, in Bogotá - Colombia.
What new dynamics of learning, awareness and activism emerge when ancestral manual techniques are recovered in a contemporary context? This is the starting point for my first reflections.
Starting from a particular interest in the dynamics of teaching and learning craft and DIY in cyberspace, as well as in textile activism and third wave feminisms -which recognize the contexts, interests and situated knowledge of each woman, highlighting the importance of difference and plurality for community building - I found in embroidery the space to develop the first concepts of my master's thesis in design, as well as the time to generate reflections that allowed me to generate concepts and weave theories of communication with theories of textile activism. These concepts, materialized in embroidery, reflect the construction of this weaving, with emphasis on the creation of community through digital activisms such as: craftivism, knitivism and DIY.
"What is woven in cyberspace?"
"DIY is a practice that generates spaces to build a cybercultural global village".
"Handmade objects are ways to tangibilize digital and face-to-face activisms reflecting collective intelligence"
"Handmade objects are ways to tangibilize digital and face-to-face activisms reflecting collective intelligence"
"Manual practices taught and learned in cyberspace generate community building."
"The handmade object is an extension of the body, as well as technology."
"The handmade object is an extension of the body, as well as technology."
The concepts presented in this sampler are: DIY as a builder of a Global Village; technology and the handmade object as extensions of the human body (Marshall McLuhan / Anna König); the tangibilization of collective intelligence through handmade objects and community building through manual practices (Pierre Lévy, / Beth Ann Pentney).