Semiótica de la transversalidad para una formación contemporánea en la artesanía

Abstract

In recent years, we have observed how technological advances are pushing society, and therefore the economy, in a vertiginous and exponential way, towards a paradigm shift that is forcing all productive sectors to reinvent themselves. This way of moving forward prevents us from glimpsing the collateral damage it generates and is causing a huge crack in the sustainability of our planet. For this reason, more and more voices are calling for changes in production models and in the way we relate to our environment, whether economic, social or natural. Crafts are no stranger to this situation. Since the arrival of the industrial revolution, it has not stopped transforming and adapting to survive in a competitive world where times are changing, but now more than ever, it needs to adapt to a diffuse reality that can relaunch it as a sustainable economic activity or lead it to its disappearance. There are many signs that are showing the way, such as the digitalization of certain production processes, the constant search for uniqueness and excellence, design as a basis for contemporaneity, or sustainability and territorial identity as essential elements of the artisan DNA. All these issues should be addressed, systematized and incorporated into the training programs of all craft disciplines in art schools, vocational training centers or university faculties. This article, therefore, intends to anticipate as an introductory advance to a possible epistemological construction of craft training through the incorporation of those signs and evidences of transversal subjects that should become core subjects in future educational programs related to crafts.