Of herbalists and their herbs: non-hegemonic creations in Samper Mendoza market

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n29.13

Gloria Stella Barrera Jurado
Orcid ID: orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9787-7401
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
gbarrera@javeriana.edu.co

Jorge Enrique Kuklinski Sicard
Orcid ID: orcid.org/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-7623
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
jkuklinski@javeriana.edu.co

Abstract:

The classical ways to make creations characterized by being normative, Euro-centric, patriarchal, and linear. Thus, the scholarly design is anchored, which societies transform in daily life. This study focuses in the field of critical studies on design in order to find hopeful ways from the lessons of herbalists, social actors who have been made invisible, denied, and even hunted down, even though they are creators by and with nature. This paper reports the results of a hermeneutic research with herbalists from the Samper Mendoza market in Bogotá, Colombia, based on which we will put forward a proposal oriented towards a non-hegemonic, autonomous, and emancipating.

Keywords: creations, herbalists, non-hegemonic, autonomy, industrial design.