Material Dialogues: Ludic engagement with indigenous communities through craft practices

在可持续未来和社会创新的背景下，传统手工艺正在经历复兴，这反映在促进设计师和土著手工艺者之间合作的倡议激增，作为文化遗产保护的一种手段。通过提出后殖民问题和土著视角的定位，这项基于实践的研究将探讨设计在通过工艺实践创造有意义的参与中的作用，以促进设计师和土著工艺人员之间的平衡对话。为此，该项目将与墨西哥瓦哈卡州的萨波特卡陶艺家社区进行一系列案例研究，在那里，以设计为主导的方法和视觉人种学将被用于探索土著知识的新方法。

Traditional crafts are experiencing a revival in the context of sustainable futures and social innovation, which has been reflected in a surge of initiatives that promote collaborations between designers and indigenous craftspeople as a means of cultural heritage preservation. By raising issues of post-colonization and positioning of indigenous perspectives, this practice-based research will investigate the role of design on creating meaningful engagements through craft practices in order to promote a balanced dialogue between designers and indigenous craft people. For this purpose, the project will undertake a series of case studies with communities of Zapoteca ceramists in Oaxaca, Mexico, where design-led methods and visual ethnography will be used to explore new approaches to indigenous knowledge.