Objectspace x AUT Present: Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero

Join us for a lecture from international visitor Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero, offering ‘material (and problematic) answers from the multiplicity that we are here and now.’

Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero is Associate Professor at the School of Product Design at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, and visits Aotearoa as a guest of Objectspace and AUT School of Future Environments.

Gutiérrez Borrero introduces his presentation:

“The lecture deals with material narratures (the materialized and materializing narratives of nature and culture) explanations, implications and applications of what has been, as the established tapestry of memory – of what has happened, what has gone before us, and with desires as the conglomerate of possibilities of what will happen after.

From the deeply rooted reinterpretation of multiple relational localities, this lecture will present a questioning conversation of the linearity of Western time that begins in the past and moves forward into the future.

How do we read the strata of design that have become archaeological objects? How do we converse with things (in terms of what we say through them and also of what we speak with them)? In the key of the south, of the other, of the other names – what has occupied this place (what pre-occupies it) and what is going to occupy it (what will re-occupy it)?”