Luis Fernando Patiño Santa - Diseñar con luz y sentido

Patiño Santa, Luis Fernando

Diseñar con luz y sentido: un proyecto de diseño de luminarias inspirado en El principito , de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Luis Fernando Patiño Santa, Nathalia Franco Pérez – Medellín: Editorial EAFIT, 2018.

248 p.; 22 cm. -- (Colección Académica)

ISBN 978-958-720-540-4

1. Lámparas – Diseño y construcción. 2. Diseño de productos – Metodología. 3. Diseño – Enseñanza. I. Franco Pérez, Nathalia. II. Tít. III. Serie.

749.63 cd 23 ed.

P298

Universidad EAFIT – Centro Cultural Biblioteca Luis Echavarría Villegas

Designing with Light and Meaning

A Design Project for Luminaries Inspired by The Little Prince , by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

First edition: september, 2018

© Luis Fernando Patiño Santa, Nathalia Franco Pérez

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ISBN: 978-958-720-540-4

Editor: Marcel René Gutiérrez

Layout and cover design: Maria Luisa Eslava

Cover luminaire: Tomás Loaiza Jiménez

Photography: Robinson Henao

Translation: Jeffrey Winchell

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We dedicate this book to the students and professors who participated in this lamp design project inspired by The Little Prince and in particular to the student Sofía Cortés Alzate, who left behind a glimmer of light as lovely and delicate as the stars and confirmed with her parting that “what is essential is invisible to the eye”

Content

Prologue Prologue When an atom is observed, it appears in space as a particle, and when the observer moves away, it disappears. It is a matter of quantum physics. This is what good projects are like: they appear when several people begin to think about them and dedicate their energy and motivation to them and continue if there is perseverance and profound dedication. In this case, the luminaires inspired by The Little Prince presented in this book and created through a design exercise in the Project 2 course, are imbued with values, knowledge, techniques and the love of one’s work. It is an unexpected, fresh and creative exercise for new generations who want to learn in a different way. This book is the materialization of an encounter between two ideas: the first is how to teach design by motivating the students to learn, and the other is how to reflect on integrity in classrooms by designing with meaning. It is the testimony of an unforgettable exercise because it was engraved into hearts of those who participated in it. It reached our core, it pierced our hearts and will always be remembered as a great challenge for the Product Design Engineering (PDE) professors, the students, and the people who collaborated. It was essential to tell this story, so that it would remain as an academic testimony of how to innovate in the classroom and how to unite product design and integrity in a freshman year course in a challenging major such as PDE. Thus, this book is a travel log that narrates how the exercise began, how it was developed and what the results were. The introduction explains which departments at Universidad EAFIT participated in the project and why they coordinated their efforts to give it life. Chapter 1 describes what is meant by designing with meaning, from a universal inspiration and with something as immaterial as light. Chapter 2 narrates the development of the exercise, its pedagogical strategy, and the most important findings. Finally, the conclusions reflect on the process from the standpoint of integrity and results presented by the students. The book concludes with photographs of the luminaries as a catalog. The design process is infinite, and you can always innovate by proposing new challenges. We hope that this book will be a source of inspiration to anyone who holds and examines it, skims through it, or reads it carefully. It is an invitation to enter the world of creativity, design and humanity. It is a point of inflection to return to the understanding that “what is essential is invisible to the eyes.”

Introduction

Product Design Engineering

Center for Integrity

Department of Artistic Development

Chapter 1: Designing with Meaning

Teaching Design: A Challenge in This Era

Planning the Pedagogical Strategy: Designing with the Intangible

A Passionate Leitmotif : Choosing a Universal Inspiration

Chapter 2: The Methodology: A Step by Step Inner Journey

Week 1.Presentation of the Brief and Introduction to the Exercise

Week 2.Defining the Concept: Bonding with What Is Essential

Week 3.Development of Ideas: Relying on Techniques and Materials

Origami Workshop: The Folding and Translucency of Paper

Jewelry Workshop: Exploration of the Properties of Metal

Wood Workshop: Unions, Aesthetics and Resistance

Week 4.Embodiment: Light as a Design Tool

Types of Luminous Sources

Types of Light

The Effects of Light on Materials

Week 5.Detailed Design: Scale and Proportion

Week 6.Materialization: Building, Verifying and Evaluating

Week 7.Staging: The Light Is On, Version IV

Conclusions: What the Exercise Taught Us

The Motivation Thermometer

What Did the Luminaire Exercise Mean to the Student?

What Did It Mean to the Professors Who Participated in the Exercise and in the Event?

Catalogue

Alejandra María Martínez Ocampo – Lil Prin

Alejandro Toro Rico – Unique Paper

Ana Sofía Victoria Galán – Eleven

Andrea Juliana Cely Almeyda – Eodem

Andrés Fernández Gómez – Amiblé

Camila Builes Bernal – Hariq

Camila Martínez Arias – Lamp

Camilo González Pérez – Devermont

Carolina Ríos Botero – Ortu

Catalina Restrepo Betancur – Pagsuporta

Daniel Pérez Paredes – Nord

Daniel Vega Botero – Mariposa

Daniela Restrepo Montoya – Vendimia

Elisa Estrada Londoño – Hamal

Estefanía Barreneche Molina – Oprimida

Estefanía Suárez Arango – Fleur de Lis

Isaac David Jaraba García – Friendship Lamp

Isabella Castro Sáenz – Liens

Juan Camilo Ospina Piedrahíta – Zapo

Juan Pablo Jaramillo Maya – Tomodashikitsune

Juanita Arbeláez Castaño – Cross Lamp

Julián Andrés Mora Salamanca – Au Delà

Laura Bustamante Restrepo – Star Light

Luis Guillermo Osorio Rodríguez – Attaché

Luz María Bustamante Ossa – Nauj Lamp