Icsid member, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia will host the 43rd Interdesign workshop from August 21 to September 1, 2007.
The Interdesign, entitled ‘Design for the Coffee Industry: Product & Territory’ will explore the role of design in the development of the coffee industry in Colombia. Two preliminary and preparatory events have already taken place to be sure that the Interdesign workshop remains focused and will deliver the expected results. The workshop will address questions such as how are economic production, the creation of value chains, product development, urban development, and the formation of territories interrelated? How are new territories built and new products created in this era of mass world market globalisation and of integrated world capitalism? What is the role that professional designers within such dynamics?
The following themes will also be explored:
Coffee As representative agricultural product of the region, and milestone around the culture has been build (chain of value, by-products, commercialisation, consumption).
TerritoryIt includes all the space conformed by the urban networks and bordering countryside, and their processes of growth and development (tourism, house, crafts, folklore, transport, customs, gastronomy).
Associate chains of valueAlternating products characteristic of the region, that are part of their development and traditional economic recognition (guadua, flowers, fruit trees).
This event is supported by Icsid, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia, the Government of Caldas and Risaralda and the city Halls of Manizales and Pereira.
http://www.icsid.org/news/year/2007_news/articles351.htm