Inter-University Design Workshop: plurality in design education

Abstract

This paper presents the process to build and maintain a collective project between five design schools in Mexico City. In 2018, the Inter-University Design Workshop started as an “innovative education project that understands design as a mean for linking students and design faculty to the construction of open, diverse, and collective platforms for the materialization and testing of intentions and solutions to the complex problems of contemporary urban Mexican society”. In the context of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the project continued in a digital format, keeping the initial intention of bringing students close to one other, by action and will, for the guild’s sake and for their capacity to collaborate. From the strategies and outcomes that TiUD (Taller inter Universitario de Diseño) member students reached, we take valuable conclusions as clues for the new normal in education for our Workshop to secure its continuity the following years.