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Participation of PhD Catalina Rey Hernandez in Dutch Design Week
From 21 to 29 October, the reknown Dutch Design Week will take place in Eindhoven. This year, WRM's PhD candidate Catalina Rey Hernandez will participate in the DesignUnited.Expo and show some work in progress of her PhD project “Re-designing Rivers: Power, representation and struggles for recognition in design and planning processes of riverine spaces in Ecuador and The Netherlands” (part of the Riverhood project).
How does counter-mapping become part of design politics?
This is one of the key questions Catalina aims to address and discuss at the Dutch Design Week. Her PhD project "Re-designing Rivers" explores how top-down processes of landscape design and territorial planning affect riverine communities and livelihoods, triggering local confrontations with the imposed designs and related forms of socio-material ordering. This project experiments with counter-mapping as a tool to make knowledge visible, rendering territorial understandings and representing the act of drawing as a political design project in the context of the contestations around large-scale hydraulic projects in the Yanuncay river in Ecuador. For more information about the project at Dutch Design Week, please check the following links:https://lnkd.in/eHre-eN8https://lnkd.in/eyqTXMM2
More info about the DesignUnited.Expo & DesignUnited.Dialogues @DDW23
After another year of thought-provoking design research, we are thrilled to showcase our work at the DesignUnited.Expo, during the Dutch Design Week, 21-29 October in Klokgebouw Hall 3!
20 Selected Top Projects#DDW2023 zoom in on design research from the Netherlands’ four technical universities and ask what role design can play in tackling five important themes in design research: Politics of Design, Climate Futures Now, More than Human, Disentangling AI, Design & Society and Making Matters. Find out more about our Interactive Expo:https://shorturl.at/prBW5
Images from Catalina's work in progress