cure&care design

ABOUT

Cure & Care design is a reserach group from EINA University School of Design and Art of Barcelona attached to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Cure&care design includes everything we do to maintain, perpetuate and mend our world so we can live in it as best as possible. This world includes our bodies, ourselves and our environment, bound together in a complex network that sustains life.

NEW

caressage

It is a hand-to-hand drawing methodology where a transfer is created through contact between the body of the artist and the thing being drawn. Its predecessors are frottage and grattage. AUTHOR Mar Saiz

caressage drawings.

RESEARCHERS

PhD. Lara G. Díaz

PhD in Social Sciences from the Universiteit Antwerpen (UA, Belgium) and the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA, Belgium), and specialised in the field of cultural criticism and the theory of art and design with a Master's degree in Arts & Culture research from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU, Netherlands), graduating Cum Laude. She hybridises fields of action such as academic and artistic research, cultural mediation, pedagogy and critical thinking to address and analyse the conditions of possibility of cultural practices and the variables of creativity in the territories of contemporary art and design.

PhD. Anna Pujadas

Anna Pujadas is a graphic designer, working for the Fundació Eina where she carries out management, research, coordination and teaching functions. She is also professor in the Faculty of Communication Studies of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design and Digital Creation (2023). She is credited as a Full Professor by the Spanish National Agency for Quality (ANECA). She is currently researching Postdigital Design: how the digital revolution has changed design processes and hybridized materials (Makers Culture, Fablabs, DIY, Crafts Revival, self-printing, post-production)

Mar Saiz

Mar Saiz is an artist who teaches in the EINA Bachelor's Degree of Design (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona (1993). Pursued doctorate studies, obtaining an Advanced Studies diploma in Drawing: Functions and Theory from Universitat de Barcelona (2008). She teaches Drawing Strategies in Visual Creation. She teaches Art & Design research in the EINA EHEA Official Master's: University Master's Degree in Research in Art and Design. Her fields of research are the processes of creation and production in art and design, materiality and territory. She is currently finishing a doctoral thesis based on her own artistic production.

PUBLICATIONS

García Díaz, L. 2024. El derecho (de una hija) a la pereza. Una tentativa a la posibilidad de la inoperancia en la esfera de la reproducción social Laocoonte. Revista De Estética Y Teoría De Las Artes, (11), 48–57. https://doi.org/10.7203/laocoonte.i11.28896

Pujadas, A. y Saiz, M. 2023. MARGINÀLIA, Interdependent Design Processes and the Ethics of Care. INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad. 8, 15 (jul. 2023), 39–61 p. DOI:https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v8.164.

Pujadas, A. 2022. Designing From the Perspective of Care, or How to Repair the World. Temas de Diseño, Caring Though Design, 38, Elisava, Barcelona.

PROJECTS

SiT-PLU. 2025-2027.

Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU) is a Creative Europe initiative tackling socio-ecological challenges through innovative, context-specific artistic interventions. Drawing on the Zapatista concept of the pluriverse—"a world where many worlds fit"—the project embraces diverse ways of knowing and living, foregrounding buen vivir (social well-being), communal interdependence, and the relationships between human and more-than-human entities.

https://www.luca-arts.be/en/situated-creative-practices-the-pluriverse-sit-plu

ARDES. 2022-2024.

ARDES is an Erasmus + international programe involving 4 universoties. ARDES is a short Learning Programme for Art & Design & Sustainability with special focus on environment and climate change. The programme proposes to study the approach of art design as a communication medium and to complement that approach with the learning of “artivism” to engage audiences in the topics of the proposal with, among others, the use of interactive digital tools.

https://www.eina.cat/en/eina-research/erasmus-ardes
https://ardesproject.eu/

ATACAMA. 2022.

Una experiencia de co-diseño y de diseño transcultural entre Eina, Centro Universitario de Diseño y arte de Barcelona y la Universidad del Desarrollo de Chile

https://annapujadas.cat/atacama/