Monster aesthetics as an expression of decolonizing the design body

Rafaela Angelon, Frederick M. C. van Amstel
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Institutionalized design education aims at training the human body to become a design body, a subject capable of designing according to aesthetic canons. In colonized territories, the modern canon predominates over indigenous, vernacular and other forms of expression. Manichaeism, utilitarianism, universalism, methodologism and various modern values are inculcated in the design body as if it did not have any. The colonization of design bodies makes young designers believe that once they learn what good design is, they need to save others from bad design. This research reports on a series of democratic design experiments held in a Brazilian university that questioned these values while decolonizing the design body. Comparing the works of design produced in the experiment with some works of art from the Neoconcrete movement, we recognize a characteristic form of expression we call monster aesthetics: a positive affirmation of otherness and collectivity that challenges colonialists’ standards of beauty and goodness.
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怪物美学作为一种非殖民化设计体的表达
制度化的设计教育旨在将人体训练成一个设计体,一个能够按照美学规范进行设计的主体。在殖民领土上,现代经典凌驾于土著、白话和其他表达形式之上。摩尼教、功利主义、普遍主义、方法论和各种现代价值观被灌输到设计体中,仿佛它没有任何东西。设计机构的殖民化使年轻设计师相信,一旦他们了解了什么是好的设计,他们就需要将其他人从糟糕的设计中拯救出来。本研究报告了在巴西一所大学举行的一系列民主设计实验,这些实验在非殖民化设计机构的同时质疑这些价值观。将实验中产生的设计作品与新具体主义运动中的一些艺术作品进行比较,我们认识到一种我们称之为怪物美学的特征表达形式:对他者和集体的积极肯定,挑战殖民主义者的美与善标准。
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