This Journal has been compilated by the Design Department of the Professional
Institute Santo Tomás of Chile and the Faculty of Design & Communication of the
University of Palermo. Having in mind that at present audiovisual design demands a deep
and global reflection, the articles gathered in this publication make an approach to this
area of design from its different components focusing on its experimental side.

This publication is part of the fifth Thesis Catalog, covering the years 2014 and 2015. The first issue of the Catalog relates to the theses presented in the 2004-2007 period, the second edition covers the 2008-2009 period, the third edition gathers the theses of the 2010 and 2011 and the fourth edition covers those of the 2012-2013 period. The Thesis projects, propose a new approach at the problems of design and fields that intersect with this discipline. Each level of the research aims a deliberate search for knowledge and solutions
to questions that may be cultural and / or educational in the frame of the discipline

The professional and academic fields of design are crossing through deep and
relevant structural changes. These changes are defining new ways in establishing design relationships very far away from the original ways in which these systems were imagined
and conceived and from the effective changes we are willing to produce. In this third
publication in collaboration with Parsons School of Design we will approach different
themes related to those values or practices that were or are being modified at present and
whose changes become evident through art and design. In the scope of this scenario we
propose a reflection about this topic.

During recent years, the Faculty of Design and Communication has worked on various proposals and projects aimed at systematizing the Faculty´s research activity. The Research Program is composed of four possibilities of participation: Pedagogic Activities Projects, Professional Issues Projects, Disciplinary Research Projects,
Postgraduate Projects. This journal is part of the first Research Catalogue, summarizing the areas of research, development and creation, articulated in large thematic lines, from 2012 to 2015.

The publication gathers several essays that reflect about the documentary
in the scope of contemporary audiovisual production. Different authors propose to
think documentaries as an environment of productive thinking that in colaboration
with the main theoretical discourses have created several hybrid productions that
challenge contemporary epistemologic categories. Each article in its own way explores
the relationship between documentary essence and the different fields of culture:
antropologhy, politics participation, psicoanalysis, technology, semiology and discourse
theories, different aesthetic traditions that approaches visual arts, and cinema history,
These different perspectives help to build a particular vision about tradition, technique
and style of this particular way to see this world called documentary.

We present here the proposals of Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación thematic volume. It is dedicated to study the relationship between writing and image in its different contemporary expressions. According to this, the particular conditions and transformations of the last decades are described here. All of them related to the exhaustion of the compartmentalized conception of culture. Instead, the artistic production is linked, more and more, with articulations, conjunctions and confluences
of different areas and formats. Two aspects drive these circumstances: on one hand, the development and wide dissemination of new technology; on the other hand, the blurring of the strict distinction –typical of the 20th century– between traditional scenarios and massive and popular ones in the cultural area. A new framework to rethink the link between writing and image are encouraged for those conditions named above. At the same time, they underline multiples relations, reversible and diversified: translocations,
reconversions and fluidity between both terms.

This Journal gathers academic papers produced by experts in Latin American art history, cinema and latin american literature. In their articles the authors approach poetics and readings in Latin American art from multiple points of view focusing in the categories of appropiation, rupture and continuity

El presente cuaderno resulta de las disquisiciones surgidas durante el coloquio internacional “Fronteras & Migraciones” convocado por Retina Internacional que se realizara en la Facultad de Diseño y Comunicación de la Universidad de Palermo. Los ensayos comprendidos en esta compilación se adentran en el análisis de los fenómenos originados en torno a un amplio concepto de frontera y a las características particulares de las migraciones. Confluyen así ideas y ópticas sobre su impacto en la subjetividad y sobre cómo la experiencia estética se hace cargo de interrogar, de revelar los pliegues y los intersticios de las distintas manifestaciones asociadas.

The Journal exposes the conclusions that emerged from the international
colloquium “Borders & Migrations” that was organized by Retina International and was
held at the Faculty of Design and Communications of the University of Palermo. The
essays gathered in this publication explore in the analysis of the different phenomena
that arise from a wide concept of border and from the particularities of migrations. Ideas
and approaches converge about the impact on subjectivity and about how the aesthetic
experience is able to ask, to reveal the folds and interstices of the different associated
manifestations.

The twentieth century has been a period of deep and quick changes, a time of
great tragedies whose consequences were felt worldwide. Boom periods alternated with
economic depression and austerity, and those fluctuations influenced all areas of life, had
an impact on customs and altered the rhythm of societies. In each of these steps, society
was transformed along with its customs and values. New cultural expressions tried to
channel the anxieties and researches at every moment and the correlation of these flows
was also expressed in fashion. To think about fashion in the twentieth century implies the
reflection about the body, the society and its changes; it implies also “to read” technological
changes and its counterpart in the culture in the light of the diverse manifestations that
operate at all levels of daily life; to think about fashion is thinking about dress codes
that express the values and idiosyncrasies of each historical moment and is to think of
ourselves and how we want others to see us.
This Journal is intended to analyze some aspects of the reality of the twentieth century, to
discover the social relations around fashion, its production and reproduction.

This Journal designed and coordinated by Julio César Goyes Narváez –National
University of Colombia– and Alejandra Niedermaier –University of Palermo, Argentina–
addresses the problem of the image poetics which is understood as the shelter of the
cognitive, the operational and the epistemological that accounts for the practices and
processes of the visual image and the new regimes that generate the field of significance and
meaning. From there it goes into the emerging and necessary pedagogies that the image
itself requests. Pedagogies that serve the imagers but primarily concerned with the training
of actors aware of the complex cultural and social variables that inhabit in the visual.

This publication is part of the fourth Thesis Catalog, covering the years 2012
and 2013. The first issue relates to the thesis presented in the 2004-2007 cycle, the second
edition of the 2008-2009 cycle and the third edition of the 2010-2011 which also have
different issues with discipline foundation and high academic scientific methodology. The
articulation of all thesis projects, shows the extensive skilled scientific work proposed in
the Master. Each of the levels of research work on the final outcome of the project, proposes a deliberate search for knowledge and solutions to problems that may be of a cultural
and / or educational discipline.

This short essay prefaces the edition of this present Journal. Our intention was
to reflect on the image and its importance in communication, social image constructions
and culture, for which we focus on the relationship between image and: photography, cinema, memory, music, identity , gender, social networks, color and power relations. There
will be intense reflections, by converging moments together while deeply divergent, therefore the discussion “between the lines” reign in the publication. Finally, this number
suggests thinking breaklines and speak from the opening with the intention of promoting
debates and opinions about the role of the image in relation ultimately, with humanity.

This Journal of the Center for Studies in Design and Communication, Faculty
of Design and Communication at the University of Palermo, Argentina –Interpreting XXI
century design thinking– corresponds to the joint second-publishing project with Parsons
The New School for Design, one of the most prestigious educational institutions dedicated
to the teaching of Design, based in New York, USA. The theme developed in this Journal
explores in the social, economic, educational and anthropological aspects of today's
society to visualize possible future scenarios that will define both design functions and
the profile of the students who will be inserted in that field. Eighteen authors, seven from
the U.S.A. and eleven from Argentina, recognized academics and professionals, addressing
the problem through the eyes of their own specific discipline. The articles deep into the
context of fashion design and analyze the problem under the gaze of sociology, interior
design, ecology, fashion design, photography, advertising, art and pedagogy.

This journal gathers the articles of several authors who analyze the particular universe of video-art through different approaches. On one hand, they reflect on the creation and production of this artistic movement known as video-art where the role played by the actor, in a media whose structure is based on the absence of narrative, affects the particular narrative cinema dramatic function; and considering that the spectator’s place also radically changes. In addition, the journal poses the particular relationship between the concept of staging, space and body in video-art, from the reflection of some contemporary video artists. On the other hand, the authors conduct a historical approach on video-art from its relationship with the artistic, historical and cinematographic vanguards, as well as its close relationship with the experimental cinema of the 60s and 70s. Another approach developed by the authors is based on the unique characteristics of video-art in the cultural field by analyzing their genealogy and reflecting on their current situation, as well as the possibilities in the field of university education to the analysis of
video-art as a teaching tool. Finally, we reflect on the possibility of creating video-art archives considering the changes brought by digital technologies and the Internet circulation of audiovisual material.

Before analyzing the processes of project management, we have to explore
What is the concept of culture from which we work? What are the dimensions of the
cultural sphere? These ideas are part of the reflections that define the set of values and wills
to development and realization in action. In this article, we address the management and
the design of sustainable cultural projects with a long term vision, defined as a collective,
shared and transformative tool that realizes our identity.

This prologue is intended to address the essays gathered in this publication from two axes: 1) The problem of identity in novice writers-directors, 2) The phenomenon of mediation and intermediality in present enterteinment shows. In this part we propose the analysis of each of the concepts developed by the authors, who show different perspectives: the approach of both the academic critic and the stage manager.

This issue of the Journal of the Center of Design and Communication Studies in the Faculty of Design and Communication at the University of Palermo, gathers lucid and competent reflections from academics and professionals from different Latin American countries on the present and future of Design and Communications. This particular publication is the result of the exchange of glances, reflections and conclusions expressed by fellow academics and professionals in the Latin American Congress of Design Education, that the University of Palermo organized annually in the Latin American Design Meeting. We have gathered in this issue the critical view of authors from Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
The publication organizes its contents in four axes: 1) The disciplinary field of design. Perspectives and approaches, 2) About design education: critical reflections and practical applications, 3) Models approach to scope; 4) Creative industries and cultural context and new paradigms. The contents of this book have been coordinated by Nora A. Morales Zaragoza Autonomous Metropolitan University, Cuajimalpa, Mexico and Maria Elena Onofre, University of Palermo, Argentina.

This Journal published by the Design and Communication Studies Center of the Faculty of Design and Communication at the University of Palermo, Argentina corresponds to a collaboration with Parsons the New School for Design, one of the most prestigious educational institutions dedicated to Design Education, based in New York, USA. The multidisciplinary view on Fashion Design as a discipline in constant growth and evolution, reveals new trends and discoveries which find in this paper different and
innovative responses. This enriching academic exchange on education in the field of fashion design in the context of the global industry’s changing scenario, opens the debate and poses the challenge of forming designers with a solid theoretical and practical support to help to their integration into professional life. Thirteen authors, seven Argentines and six Americans, addressing the problem through the eyes of their own specific discipline. The articles deepen into the fashion context and include topics related to business and entrepreneurship, history, student development, architecture, crafts, fashion design education, art, psychology, photography, sociology, anthropology, communication, philosophy and ecology.

The subject of the present notebook faces the problem of identity that comes several years struggling in the Latin American Congress of Design at the University of Palermo by numerous scholars from Latin America. Based on theories and then delve into specific cases and investigations, the authors deepen the question of identity design including concrete experiences.

This publication is part of the third Thesis Catalog, covering the years 2010 and
2011. The first issue relates to the thesis presented in the 2004-2007 cycle, and the second
edition of the 2008-2009 cycle, which also have different issues with discipline foundation
and high academic scientific methodology. The articulation of all thesis projects, shows
the extensive skilled scientific work proposed in the Master. Each of the levels of research
work on the final outcome of the project, proposes a deliberate search for knowledge and
solutions to problems that may be of a cultural and / or educational discipline.

The following publication includes the essays of nine authors who reflect on the
transformation of art, communication and culture from the emergence, development and consolidation of the new information and communication technologies.
Several issues such as bio-art, digital cinema and literature of weblogs as well as the reconfiguration of cultural industries, specifically the mass media through events such as the concentration of power, social networks, the political activism and cultural management challenges are
deeply analyzed througout the text.
In all cases we investigate issues related to the production, circulation and consumption of new
knowledge and products.
The value of the essays presented below, is that each author contextualizes its objects of study,
analyzing cases from which to understand recent changes in the field of communication, art
and culture and raise questions from of which to think and act critically

This issue of Cuadernos, gathers articles by italian and argentine scholars. This
publication is the result of the meeting held on September 30th , 2011 between the two institutions and that was dedicated to The Made in Italy historical roots. The event was organized by
the Faculty of Design and Communication of the University of Palermo in collaboration with
the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Articles in Fashion & Art deep into issues
involving fashion history, aesthetics, design, communication, arts and crafts and its network
with production and the consumer society of past and present.

En este cuaderno ideado y coordinado por Viviana Polo Florez de la Universidad de San Buenaventura de Cali, Colombia y por Alejandra Niedermaier de la Universidad de Palermo de Buenos Aires, Argentina confluyen ideas y ópticas acerca de la subjetividad contemporánea. 

The present publication approaches some basic axes such as fashion, communication, consumption, art, design, science and technology. Nowadays, we know that knowledge
cannot nor must stop being multidisciplinary, not even for those professionals who are dedicated to design and communication. This new edition of Cuadernos includes not only different
subjects on several disciplines but also includes different glances from the different authors,
who contribute to this edition, not only with richness and variety in their contents, but also a
multiplicity of approaches that produces as a final result the same beauty that surprises when
observing the figures when we watched through a kaleidoscope. A kind of mandala that hypnotizes by its wonderful mixture of shapes and colors.