Designing (at) the Edges: Urban Interfaces and Hybrid hábitats”

MARIA ELENA TOSELLO; PATRICIA MINES; MARCELO JEREP; CAMILA M. PICCO

Congreso; XXV International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics; 2021

This interdisciplinary work, which integrates teaching, research andextension, incorporated students from 5 Latin American universities of Architecture anddifferent Design Degrees. The experience that was developed in the first semester of2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic, deals with the contribution that design and digitalmedia can make to the social problems of local communities. Through the collaborativedesign of artifacts, interfaces, spaces and representations that articulate the natural, theartificial and the digital, the objective was to value and make visible the natural andcultural heritage of "La Boca", a coastal neighborhood of the city of Santa Fe, located inthe flood valley of the Paraná River. Innovative ideas were provided to drive sustainabledevelopment processes through proposals that rescue the knowledge and resources ofthe place using digital mediations. The article analyzes the conceptual bases,methodology and results of this difficult but original experience.