{"id":2576,"date":"2026-09-29T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2576"},"modified":"2026-10-14T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:56:50","slug":"establishing-waikato-design-school-place-based-decolonized-transdisciplinary","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/event\/establishing-waikato-design-school-place-based-decolonized-transdisciplinary\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishing Waikato Design School: place-based, decolonized, transdisciplinary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span>La creaci\u00f3n de la Escuela de Dise\u00f1o de Waikato: situada en el territorio, descolonizada, transdisciplinaria<\/span>
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En este espacio presentamos un estudio sobre el proyecto que comienza en 2025 en la Universidad de Waikato <\/span>para<\/span> establecer la nueva escuela de dise\u00f1o en esta regi\u00f3n de Nueva Zelanda. En Waikato existi\u00f3 desde hace a\u00f1os un peque\u00f1o programa de dise\u00f1o gr\u00e1fico en el \u00e1rea de computaci\u00f3n al cual se incorporaron el dise\u00f1o industrial, medios e interfaces digitales. Es decir, programas muy convencionales que se formaron siguiendo la tradici\u00f3n<\/span> euroc\u00e9ntrica <\/span>del dise\u00f1o. Para 2024 la universidad decide crear una escuela de dise\u00f1o y se nombra al autor para establecer y dirigir esta escuela con el mandato de que sea \u00fanica y diferenciada a las ya existentes cinco escuelas de dise\u00f1o en universidades del pa\u00eds y una docena m\u00e1s en academias t\u00e9cnicas o privadas. Compartimos aqu\u00ed el resultado del estudio inicial sobre las condiciones internas y externas de la universidad, la presencia y las oportunidades para el dise\u00f1o con otras disciplinas y con la industria y las comunidades locales. Y compartimos la configuraci\u00f3n de este proyecto acad\u00e9mico que busca descolonizar y reconfigurar el dise\u00f1o como eje transdisciplinar orientado al impacto en las comunidades locales. Conectamos este caso de estudio con epistemolog\u00edas del Sur Global.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In this space we present a study on the project that began in 2025 at the University of Waikato to establish a new design school in this region of New Zealand. For years, Waikato had a small graphic design program within the computing area, which was later joined by industrial design, media, and digital interfaces \u2014 that is, very conventional programs formed following the Eurocentric tradition of design. In 2024, the university decided to create a design school and appointed the author to establish and lead this school with a mandate to make it unique and distinct from the five design schools already existing at universities in the country, and a dozen more at technical or private academies. Here we share the results of an initial study on the university’s internal and external conditions, and the presence and opportunities for design alongside other disciplines, industry, and local communities. We also share the configuration of this academic project, which seeks to decolonize and reconfigure design as a transdisciplinary axis oriented toward impact on local communities (place-based). We connect this case study with epistemologies of the Global South.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Session type:<\/strong> Estudio de caso (Case Study)<\/span><\/p>\n

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