LATINO DESIGN HISTORIES | Locating design exchanges in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Society of Design Arts and AIGA Baltimore held this online talk by design historians Livia Rezende (Brazil) and Patricia Lara-Betancourt (Colombia), co-editors of the volume Locating Design Exchanges in Latin America and the Caribbean, a special issue of the Journal of Design History (Oxford University Press, 2019).

They discussed what happens when researchers foreground Latin American and Caribbean agency in design, a proposition that underpins the edition. Guided by this challenge, they proposed a new approach to the discourse on Latin American and Caribbean design and considered ways to decolonize and globalize the study of design history in and from that region.

AIGA Baltimore and SoDA member Raquel Castedo hosted this event, part of the virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.

Thank you to AIGA Unidos, Stevenson University, and the Design History Society for partnering with us on this event.

Recordings in English, Spanish and Portuguese are available below:

Credits

Livia Rezende and Patricia Lara-Betancourt | Presenters
Raquel Castedo | SoDA and AIGA Baltimore Program Leader, Producer and Moderator
Frances Miller | AIGA Baltimore Co-Producer
Anthony Welborn | AIGA Unidos Co-Producer
Bianca Lima | AIGA Unidos Co-Producer
Lori Rubeling | SoDA and Stevenson University Co-Producer