Este prólogo presenta la historicidad de la relación institucional entre la Universidad de Palermo y el Programa de Posgraduación en Diseño de la Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais. Así mismo presenta la temática y la estructuración de la publicación, con un detalle de los investigadores convocados por la Facultad de Diseño y Comunicación (UP) y de los artículos presentados referidos a Innovación Social en América Latina.

En el presente número de Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño se analiza, desde sus múltiples aristas un complejo y amplio cruce entre investigación y Diseño. A fin de ordenar estas reflexiones y dado el modo en que diversas perspectivas epistemológicas y estéticas trabajan sobre objetos de estudio propios de la disciplina, el Cuaderno discurre en tres ejes temáticos. En primer lugar, el orientado particularmente a estudiar la epistemología del Diseño, un segundo eje incorpora a su vez la variable de la enseñanza en el análisis y un tercer eje, que inserta el matiz estético y está conformado por diversos casos.

Esta publicación invita a una reflexión acerca de aquellos momentos en los que la sociedad genera cambios significativos en distintas disciplinas buscando un discurso en común. Este cuaderno reúne dos aproximaciones interesantes sobre temas fuertemente vinculados con el diseño en ese momento histórico en el que se producen modificaciones centrales en la lógica proyectual: el comienzo de la modernidad.

La inclusión del Diseño para la Transición (Irwin, Kosoff y Tonkinwise, 2015) propuesto por la Universidad Carnegie Mellon a nivel de posgrado, en la currícula de la Maestría en Gestión del Diseño UP, ha permitido promover una mirada integral y responsable del diseño en nuestros estudiantes, tendiente a preguntarse sobre las prácticas aprendidas y profesionales instaladas en el campo, considerándolo desde una perspectiva sistémica, que revisa sus escenarios contextuales en todas sus dimensiones y capas de incidencia, haciendo foco sobre la relación sostenible entre Sociedad-Economía-Ambiente.

This Journal is the result of various continuities. Integrates a sequence that had begun with the Issue No. 56 Pedagogies and policies of the image also carried out in conjunction with the National University of Colombia through its Institute of studies in communication and culture - IECO and compiled by the same coordinators, Julio César Goyez Narváez and Alejandra Niedermaier, of this Journal that are always attentive to the course of the image in the contemporary visuality. Visual turns request a constant and watchful look on its evolution. The present compilation give an account of deep researches around the symbolic impact of the image, its ability to create imaginary, its manifestation as symptom of various problems and its ability to generate stories. This Journal takes into account also the different members of the communication circuit. Many writings also include studies on the educational aspects that are needed today

The world today is changing in various ways: in terms of climate, economy, politics, migration waves which travel from one end of the planet to the other, relapses to nationalist governments, armed conflicts for religious, economic or political reasons, and changes in communication. In this intolerant, ambiguous and changing state of things, our purpose once again –in a joint effort between Argentineans and Americans– is to reflect on how to express these issues in art and design.

Collective representations and the conformation of social imaginaries create a
space of reflection that is very enriching at the time of analyzing societies. The cinema is a
social document that proposes multiplicity of views on the mentalities of a time or place.
Through its stories and its ways of presenting them, it is feasible to understand the rules
and discourses that prevail today.

As sociological phenomenon, fashion becomes as languages that crosses economic, environmental, discursive, cultural and political dimensions. However, in general,
fashion as an object of study, has aroused little interest in the academy. In particular, for the
social sciences, the daily practice of dressing bodies is defined as a social practice that takes
into account the norms, codes and values historically constructed on the appearance of the
subjects in the contexts of social interaction. Fashion has established permanent crossings
with art and design and has been one of most significant and profitable industries in history. In fact, this publication presents a selection of articles wich debate from different perspectives theoretical and regional about the role of fashion and design in social relations.

Through this specific issue of Cuadernos, we can reflect on the relationship of
aesthetic manifestations with temporality and memory. The intention is to deepen something and make significant contributions on this subject through the study of oral, written, pictorial, theatrical, performative, and/or cinematographic stories addressing the plurality of time and the construction of memory for the transformation of the map of the
perceptible and of the thinkable, around art and communication.

El volumen busca indagar en la historieta como medio de comunicación, lenguaje y soporte de narrativas contemporáneas con la intención de correrle el velo a cierta comodidad crítica enfocada ya sea en una supuesta especificidad del lenguaje (posición legitimista) o en su origen bastardo y literario (posición elitista). 

La inclusión del Diseño para la Transición (Irwin, Kosoff y Tonkinwise, 2015) propuesto por la Universidad Carnegie Mellon a nivel de posgrado, en la currícula de la Maestría en Gestión del Diseño UP, ha permitido promover una mirada integral y responsable del diseño en nuestros estudiantes, tendiente a preguntarse sobre las prácticas aprendidas y profesionales instaladas en el campo.

This text presents the proposals advanced in the thematic volume of the Journals from the Center of Design and Communication Studies. Its purpose is to offer different approaches that address educational-digital convergence and that, specifically, deal
with the sphere of books and reading and its intersections with design. Through varying viewpoints, spanning fields associated with issues of reading and writing, like design,
communication, and publishing, as well as related disciplines like anthropology, sociology,
history, literature, and library and educational sciences, among others; and fields more
closely linked with the production and circulation of books in different formats, we introduce a group of topics that constitute challenges when researching convergence.

In this article we introduce both the book and the research perspective in which
it is included. Even though the cultural and design fields are different areas of study, research, and action, they intersect each other, both at the level of concepts and at the level
of practices. As anthropologists, we mainly focus on the concept of culture and discuss its
intersections with the field of design. On the one hand, understanding culture as an active
and disputed process of construction of meanings (Wright 2007), we consider design, in
its different dimensions and manifestations (designs of products, spaces, performing arts, audio-visual arts, communication strategies, etc.), as a field of disputes over perspectives
and practices. Moreover, any design is always developed in a sociocultural framework. On
the other hand, we can analyse the objects, practices and cultural representations considering the design that shapes them, the valuations those designs recreate, modify or sustain,
and the policies that shape them.

Technological advancement is turning our entire experience of contact with the
real world into virtual applications, seems to be relegating industrial design to a practice
only redeemable in its way of operating digital representation devices, and in misty designs
like the design of Experiences or thinking design.
This trend that blurs the scope of the profession is enhanced by the development of new
materials, by the miniaturization to the vacuum of the artifacts and by the estrangement
of the reality that gives us the new way of dwelling in social networks.

Assuming the conditions and opportunities of the moment, this book tries to approach
–from different realities– possible ways of action from and for a discipline committed to
reality, matter and projects.

This prologue presents the institutional relationship’s historicity between
Universidad de Palermo and the Postgraduate Program in Design of the Universidade do
Estado de Minas Gerais. Also present the structure of the publication, with a detail of the
texts of the researchers convened by the Facultad de Diseño y Comunicación.

Cinema is a field of symbolic power in which the discourses prevailing in today’s society are constructed. In this Journal edited by the University of Palermo, the authors propose to analyze the representations of authoritarianism and totalitarianism based on the analysis of a corpus of filmic images of cinematographic and fictional newsreels, which deal with the intersection of cinema / history in relation to its context of production. The films are considered as cultural products that take elements of the symbolic universe
that surrounds them, constituting themselves as constructors and reproducers of social imaginaries.
The various articles presented in this book are established as a laboratory for the reflection of social scientists, who in the task of investigating the future of socio-historical processes today have this inestimable resource that was provided by science and the modern technology. There are multiple perspectives of analysis offered from the perspective of the authors: the cinema as a historical document; the film version of the past; the film as a didactic resource; signifier system, and place of memory and social imaginary, all of them developed and applied to the different films that make up this publication.

Teaching, at all levels and contexts, is a complex practice involving a multiplicity
of components and actions. General Didactics has as an object of knowledge and Projective
Didactics complexes its object from the disciplinary view. However, teaching as a social
practice involves a dimension of a different nature, and is not usually considered with the
depth it deserves depending on its determinant role of objectives, contents and strategies.
The ideological dimension underlies each instance of the process and impacts both the
decision to include a field of knowledge in the academic context, as well as the construction of curricula, the design of subject programs and the planning and implementation of any
proposal for teaching. Reflecting together on this dimension is the axis proposed in this
work, in which the view from different disciplines and academic contexts makes it possible
to delve into the richness and complexity of this perspective of design teaching. 

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.