Estudio 7: Diseño Popular (Studio 7: Popular Design), is an ongoing practical design research course at the Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia.

1. Universidad de los Andes, Departamento de Diseño
Bogotá, Colombia.
Key words: regions / cultural resources / social enterprises
Estudio 7: Diseño Popular
A course about design and popular culture
more on:
http://designblog.uniandes.edu.co/blogs/dise3136/
Delosreyes, 2009

2. Context: Colombia is a deeply unequal and fragmented
society. Popular culture, confronts conflict through practices of
invention and hybridization. Design interventions can become
spaces of re-encounter and creativity.
Delosreyes, 2009

3. Project: Through cultural dialogue, civic engagement and
participation, design project turns into an ad hoc community able
to trigger change.
Projects: Ospino, Niño & Delgado, 2011. Barreto, García & Maya, 2010. Alzate, 2011.

4. Empathize
Reencounter
Build
Barreto, García, Maya 2010
Activate
Design role: Designers take part as co-owners of the
problem, since a common belonging is acknowledged. They
contribute to mobilize the collective capabilities, and build on top
of what there is and what has been made.
Alzate, 2011