Seminario: «Políticas de investigación en diseño en Iberoamérica»

Abstract

In 2022 the International seminar on design research was organized by the Design Research and Innovation Group of the University of La Laguna, thanks to the collaboration of the University of La Laguna and funding from the Government of the Canary Islands, Cabildo de Tenerife and City Council of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Under the title «Design Research Policies in Ibero-America», the question of the different strategies and public policy actions to address and promote design as a rigorous scientific discipline was addressed. The seminar program established a space for the meeting of the IberoAmerican Design Research Network (RIDID) in order to share the experiences and research advances generated within the framework of the international project «Visions of academic research in design in Ibero-America». This edition had Mexico as the guest country and it was possible to listen to the lectures made by Óscar Salinas (PhD), Professor Aura Cruz and Professor Iroel Heredia, all of them from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Their reflections and analysis, presented below, constitute a documentation of what happened and useful and relevant information on the state of design research policies in Mexico in particular, and in Latin America in general.