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Design(ing) Manufacturing Collaboration

Maria Eugenia Sosa Martì, Caterina Dastoli, Silvia Ferraris

Design(ing) Manufacturing Collaboration

The Case of the Furniture Sectorn in Uruguay

In Uruguay, collaboration between designers and manufacturing companies remains limited, largely due to the historical separation between the academic sphere and the productive sector. Design has often evolved within theoretical or cultural frameworks disconnected from industrial practice. This book seeks to bridge that gap, presenting a design intervention aimed at creating spaces for exchange and collaboration between those who design and those who produce.

Pages: 144

ISBN: 9788835189305

Edizione:1a ediz 2025

Publisher code: 10319.44

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In Uruguay, collaboration between designers and manufacturing companies remains limited, largely due to the historical separation between the academic sphere and the productive sector. Design has often evolved within theoretical or cultural frameworks disconnected from industrial practice, while companies have focused on short-term production needs rather than long-term innovation. This book seeks to bridge that gap, presenting a design intervention aimed at creating spaces for exchange and collaboration between those who design and those who produce.
Through an in-depth analysis of the Uruguayan design landscape and manufacturing sector, the authors explore both the barriers that hinder cooperation and the opportunities that emerge when new product development becomes a shared process. Focusing on the furniture industry, where small-scale and semi-artisanal production foster experimentation, the book highlights new ways to connect creativity and industry.
The intervention takes shape in the development of a collaborative tool (EnCo), conceived from insights gathered directly from both design studios and manufacturing realities. Drawing on these perspectives, the tool aims to strengthen communication, foster collaboration, and support joint innovation during new product development.
This book offers a concrete direction to build a collaborative dialogue space between Design and manufacturing realities for making the development of new design products more efficient.

Mithra Zahedi, Preface

Introduction

Part I. Reasoning on the context of design intervention

Designing into and out of Context: a Critical Reflection

Collaboration as an Approach for Social and Economic Prosperity

Introducing Design in Latin America for the Productive Sector

  • From Commodities to Industrialization
  • Distance between Scientific System and Productive Sector
  • Design vs Crafts
  • The Failure of the Industrialisation
  • Neo-liberalism and the Local Tradition
  • Designing in Territory
  • Concluding Remarks

Framing Design in Uruguay: a Pluriversal Approach

  • Positioning Design
  • Overview of the Design Approach
  • The Role of the Designer in Uruguay
  • The Dichotomy between Design and Industry
  • Design Education and Practice
  • Final Remarks

Part II. Collaboration between design and manufacturing

Overview of the Research Process

  • Design in Uruguay to Support Local Production
  • Design and Industry: the Interaction in Furniture Production
  • Collaborative Framework
  • Collaboration in Furniture Production in Uruguay

Focus on Uruguay: How Design Supports Local Productivity

  • An Overview of Design in Uruguay
  • Design Studios in Uruguay and Their Role in New Product Development
  • Categorization of NPD Process in Furniture Sector

Lacking Collaborative Guidelines for New Product Development in Uruguay

  • Insights About Designers’ Work
  • Insights About Carpenters’ Work
  • The Journey Map of Collaboration
  • Barriers and Enablers
  • Challenges in the Collaboration

What Happens When Collaboration Conveys Diverse Know-How

  • Defining Collaborative Design
  • Analysis of Existing Tools

Collaboration as a Catalyst: What Can Happen in the Furniture Sector in Uruguay

  • Insights as Enablers for Building Bridges
  • Existing Tools for Strengthening Collaboration
  • Final Remarks

Part III. Intervening in context: Strengthening collaboration

Design Requirements for Building Bridges

En(Co): A Proposal for Enabling the Catalyzing Potential of Collaboration in Uruguay

  • Enclosing Collaboration
  • Sequence of Use of EnCo
  • Code System
  • The Design Solution

Collecting Local Perspectives on EnCo

  • Validation of the Tool
  • Strengthening the Collaboration

Part IV. Generalizing enco: scalability and future perspectives

Scalability and Adaptation of EnCo

  • Universal Components vs. Contextual Components
  • Adaptability to Other Productive Sectors
  • Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in EnCo
  • Scalability in a Broader Context
  • Limits and Conditions for Scalability

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Authors

Contributors: Mithra Zahedi

Serie: Design International - Open Access

Subjects: Architecture, Design, Art, Urban and Regional Studies

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