KISDtalk with Diego Alatorre Guzmán: Learning Foreplay

We are programmed to behave, work, and play according to cultural applications such as local traditions and norms of etiquette. Food, clothing, and laws are likewise cooked, sewn, and written—each requiring formal and informal codes in order to be properly eaten, worn, or read.

Along their journeys, the chef, the fashion designer, and the lawmaker—like any other creative practitioner—must cultivate a critical mindset before they can propose new contributions. From the perspective of a Pedagogy of Play, meals, garments, and regulations can all be understood as games. In this sense, diners, fashion models, and citizens become players.

From a participatory perspective, this is an invitation to let go of the need for control and to approach your design process as a playful dialogue—one in which you learn what you need, at your own pace.

About Diego Alatorre Guzmán

Industrial Designer by CIDI UNAM and MSc. in Design for Interaction by TU Delft, Diego works as full-time professor at Mexico’s National University. He is in Cologne today thanks to a fellowship awarded by TH Köln. His practice peeks into the creative process of game designers, scientists and players, looking how people learn to read the world and creatively write, transforming their surroundings into better possible play-ces. His work has been (dis)played, published and awarded on multiple occasions and different formats. Since 2019, this is his 4th time at KISD and 2nd KISD Talk. Today, he will present the main findings of the doctoral research in Contemporary Studies he is about to deliver at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies from Coimbra University.

More information:

www.diegoalatorre.com

https://www.instagram.com/didi3gogo/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegoalatorre/

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5105-8403

Pictures © Diego Alatorre Guzmán