📙Thesis Season with MOD 21-23!
„Food cultural practices are part of my identity as a Mestizo woman. As mestiza, a
woman with mixed-race ancestry, specifically Indigenous from Abya Yala and white European, food rituals are memory keepers. The mothers and grandmothers'
knowledge manifested through food discloses the struggle and joy stories of dwelling amid a world trying to survive the constant occupation of the other. (…)
Could we use food rituals to disclose our historicity and design our future based on our ways and knowledges? From the dwelling between nonmodern and modern worlds, could the intertwinement of mothers' and grandmothers' Indigenous Abya Yala and Eurocentric practices tell us how to be in plurality? And, finally, could the mestiza’s ways speculate better futures?“
With a preface on food micro-stories, begins Belen (
@mestizaway ) her #masterthesis „The Mestiza Ways. Ontologically oriented speculative design of mestizo women“. Her work explores Mestizo women's historicity as an ontological approach to design, with the supervision of Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis from
@humboldt.uni /
@mattersofactivity and Dr. Laura Colombo from
@uba_ar
The Mestiza Ways project involves future speculation exercises with mestizas, focusing on creating concepts. The intention is not necessarily to develop possibilities but to generate a space through which local interpretations of the history and future are presented in orality. The project, captures the individual desired alternatives of the mestiza consciousness.
The speculation exercises were developed as a food ritual, as a conversation over coffee. Through the input of collaborators sharing about their identity and reflecting on their food rituals, three scenarios were created:
1. Symbiosis Keeper. (slide 3)
Participant/co-author: Carolina Valdivieso
@cb2_7 . Illustrator: Nashelis Lascano
@nashlascano
2. Agriculturize Ecuadorian Identity. (slide 4)
Participant/co-author: Steffy Aguirre
@steffyac . Illustrator: Monserrat Navas Borja
@la.monse.navas
3. Returning Quito to the Catzo Blanco. (slide 5)
Participant/co-author: Vilma Andrade. Illustrator: María José Mesías
@pepailustradora .
#interdisciplinary
