Learning machines. Prototipado experimental en torno al diseño, la materia y los saberes tácitos

Abstract

This research aims to investigate and question which practices linked to prototyping allow us to question the classic systems of knowledge production. To explore tensions and opportunities that intertwine experience with the direct learning of tacit knowledge.

I am interested in the artifacts-devices-processes that enable the change, transformation and learning of the knowledge that is being generated. Machines that perform acts that wander between the logics of digital and artisanal production, inhabiting and exploring an uncertain threshold of agencies mediated by matter.

In this case, starting from machines that are presented as a method of research in design, as a platform for expression and an immediate tool that activates experiences, where thinking with others is not limited to the human, in a performative way. Machines that perform acts that wander between the logics of digital and craft production, inhabiting and exploring an uncertain threshold of agencies mediated by matter.

Chance, intuition and, sometimes, luck appear inevitably in the process it is important not to have a preconceived idea of the result, as well as to allow some space for accidents and errors. Processes where experimentation forms a crucial part, a space in which to discover new relationships, possibilities, limits and dialogues. The prototyping of the machines questions the paradigms of knowledge, tenses them and makes it possible to embody knowledge that can later be transferred through design as a tool where this knowledge concludes its journey.