LATINO DESIGN HISTORIES | Untold Stories on the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico and its Diaspora

The Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore held this online talk presented by Dr. María de Mater O'Neill and Ramdwin González-Otero on untold design stories about the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Dr. O’Neill will started the program by discussing the lack of documentation on design history from the colonized territory of Puerto Rico and will present a community-based design archive she is leading, Donde el Tiempo Entorcha [Where Time Bends].

As part of the efforts to document the history of Caribbean design, González-Otero shared his research on cultural identity and representation through historical posters from Cuba and Puerto Rico.

After O’Neill’s and González-Otero’s presentations, the Nuyorican Baltimore-based artist Christina Delgado and AIGA’s Design Educators Committee board member Alberto Rigau joined us for the Q&A session.

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

Thank you to AIGA Unidos for partnering with us and to the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and the Design History Society for funding the series.

Recordings in English, Spanish and Portuguese are available below:

Credits

Dr. María de Mater O'Neill and Ramdwin González-Otero | Presenters
Christina Delgado and Alberto Rigau | Special guests
Raquel Castedo | SoDA and AIGA Baltimore Program Leader, Producer and Moderator
Frances Miller | AIGA Baltimore Co-Producer
Vinicius Lima | Recording in Portuguese
Radames Cordero | Recording in Spanish
Chanda Kumar | Recording in English
Bhargavi Sundar | Recording in English
Julieta Mendez | Interpreter Spanish-English
Samanta Libenson | Interpreter Spanish-English
Meg Batalha | Interpreter Spanish-Portuguese
Patricia Flores | Interpreter Spanish-Portuguese