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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento |Vol. 10 Nº 18| JUN 2025 | Dossier: The multiscalar. Deadline for full manuscript submission: December 31, 2024. 

Presence, Oblivion and Insistence. Comment on the Relationship Between Design and Developmentalism in Chile

Authors

  • Cristóbal Vallejos Fabres Departamento de Diseño, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile.

Abstract

The present text reflects on the influence that had the economic developmentalism within the Chilean cultural-symbolic field, and how it affected in turn, the becoming of local design. It inquires about the multidisciplinary character manifested in certain design practices in Chile between the 60s and 70s, and which were the factors that precipitated its disintegration as a cooperative practice. Finally, the text raises a reflexive process concerning three images, intending to establish a political correlate on the current context under the light of what those images demonstrate.

Keywords:

Design, developmentalism, footprint, industry, political