The project
Highlighting the legacy of our designers.
About “Design Memory of the Region of Murcia”
In Spain, the agents concerned with design are very aware of the importance of effectively communicating the whys and hows, making known all its value and relying on it to prosper as a society. And we know that one way to overcome the difficulties of making it understandable in a generalized way is to show it from action, revealing as much as there is behind the design and making known those who practice the profession.
From the Association of Design and Advertising Communication Professionals of the Region of Murcia (DIP) we strive to program activities and communicate openly about it. And so, a group of partners asked ourselves one day, what about older designers and publicists? With their talent, their experience, their knowledge, their jobs, archives and libraries? And with those who died young, when we were beginning to transition to digital and about whom the Internet hardly knows anything? What would Murcia be today without the work of these colleagues?
And we decided to organize ourselves to contribute to the RE-KNOWLEDGE of those who played a leading role in design and advertising since the first years of democracy, an exciting exploration that will help us identify and remember ourselves as a society; a long-term project that will undoubtedly contribute to a better collective future. We have seen it in other places, we are convinced of its relevance.
The MDRM_DIP group has begun to address this recognition from the bottom up, with a non-normative and budding digital archive, built voluntarily and collaboratively. But it is not the only objective that moves us. We are also activated by DESIGNING WHAT IS TO COME and programming advisory and solidarity activities that allow us to anticipate and, as far as possible, avoid the economic precariousness in which those of us who are part of the cultural and creative industries move. By explicitly endowing ourselves with a new cross-cutting principle: no discrimination on the basis of age.
If these ideas resonate with you, feel free to participate by contributing your own experiences in relation to the design and advertising of, from, in, between, for the Region of Murcia.
We are the working group “Design Memory of the Region of Murcia” of DIP and this starts now!
If you were not able to attend or if, having attended, you want to remember it, here is a two-minute video summary with the most significant images of the conference “Memory of Design Region of Murcia. Re-recognition and Design what is to come” that took place on June 6, 2024 at the General Auditorium of the Region of Murcia.