Area and Global Studies for International Cooperation - AGIC

“Researching with Indigenous Youth: Using design to support identity representation in the Ecuadorian Amazon” seminar

• Thursday, 7th December 2023, 11AM-12PM
• Room F2 (Campus Luigi Einaudi)

Seminar with Nathaly Pinto (Aalto University, Finland). This interactive presentation will explore a participatory intervention focused on using design with indigenous youth: more specifically, forming pictograms to enhance identity representation that could support specific claims in the political spaces of education, public communication, and agency. The presentation will report on ongoing action research with Indigenous youths of different nationalities based in the Amazonian region of Ecuador.