What is (CADA)?
CADA Foundation, is a source academic platform for local artisans, designers, anthropologists and suppliers– facilitating the creation , distribution and studies of artisanal work , in a way that is respectful of the cultural and historical richness of craft, and the different communities’ willingness to participate in the exchange.
CADA, in its mission, aims to achieve and document sustainable models from the environmental, social, and economic point of view– offering reflection, information and dialogue formed alongside the communities’ artisanal approach.
CADA explores the adequacy and sustainability of tools at the start of any design production, all the way to ensuring a practical and ethical chain. CADA is supported by designers, practitioners, and researchers alike who strive to achieve a local and global outreach without the loss of identity, helping to reinforce the socioeconomic and creative structure of the communities while still achieving design’s main goal: providing a service.
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CADA, in its mission, aims to achieve and document sustainable models from the environmental, social, and economic point of view– offering reflection, information and dialogue formed alongside the communities’ artisanal approach.
CADA explores the adequacy and sustainability of tools at the start of any design production, all the way to ensuring a practical and ethical chain. CADA is supported by designers, practitioners, and researchers alike who strive to achieve a local and global outreach without the loss of identity, helping to reinforce the socioeconomic and creative structure of the communities while still achieving design’s main goal: providing a service.
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“As designers increasingly turn their efforts to altering conditions for those who are oppressed and made vulnerable by the systems that shape our world, stubborn questions arise around the ethics of engagement. Socially engaged projects seek meaningful change, yet often discourage dissent, reify privilege, remain agnostic about outcomes, and do little to alter larger, structural inequalities. Designers can easily exit projects deemed failures and write these off as learning experiences. Armed with empathy and expertise, but with little local knowledge, design practitioners often struggle to form equitable relationships with partners and collaborators. Moreover, most design-based efforts fail to decenter dominant cosmologies to make room for a diversity of worldviews and ways of living in the world.”
(Barbara Adams /Collaborative Social Design with Mexican Indigenous Communities/Proximity and the Ethics of Engagement)