Vinculación entre el diseño interior y la artesanía, como una estrategia de revalorización cultural

Abstract

Craftsmanship is truly one of many cultural expressions that in many Ecuadorean towns have been a major source of income locally, nationally and specially for the Kichwa community in the Ecuadorean Amazon. Over the years Artisans have been able to develop their trade from designer roles all through production and distribution, something is almost impossible to sustain due to contemporary traditions. In a globalised world where we have allowed culture acceptance and acceptance of tendencies, along with the such we allowed a loss of local identity, one of the many reasons the designs through out time have become an emerging discipline that connects two into a more beneficial discipline in many levels. These were set as a main stepping stone to identify two meeting points, between interior design, and craftsmanship as a strategy for cultural revaluation. This would allow a take off into a list of strategies, pointing to micro-strategies which properly links and relates to the matter. For that, we begging pointing out the severe importance within the analysis of the craftsmanship expressions of the kichwa culture/community, a culture which have a lost their value throughout the years for a number of reasons and factors, some of them even came to realisation through the development and use of tools of investigation such as ‘ethnography’, questionnaires, picture diaries, etc. It is also important to point out other forms of intervention of the interior design towards craftsmanship to obtain evidence as to why the mentioned meeting points A + D are to be taken into consideration. All of this to lead to determining related strategies linking to the artisans, craftsmanship and interior design, and ultimately a revaluation of the Kichwa culture so that one way or another this would allow us to achieve some sort of strategy to guide us and allow us to use it as a tool for interior designers and in some sort benefit the craftsman of the Kichwa culture/community. The research presented, promotes the inter-disciplinary or multi-skill that the academy needed. Where students would leave behind a monkey see-monkey doo behaviour in terms of following a repeated, overly used design and model and become true promoters of designs that are to be explore. Designs that this society thirst of it.