SaberHacer Participatory design for local production and development

Abstract

According to the economist Ha-Joon Chang (2013) we are in a postindustrial age only in a certain sense and, under no circumstances, the industry - understood as the manufacturing of goods - is no longer relevant for the economic development of rich countries, much less of the developing countries.The processes and causes of deindustrialization initiated in the early eighties in the Western world have been explained through the concept of comparative advantages, regarding the advantages and disadvantages of manufacturing a product locally at a cost X, versus import/manufacture it from any supplier/manufacturer around the world at much lower cost. However, the consequences of dismantling the productive and educational structures based on manufacturing have greater externalities, where the imports are not only merchandise but also capacities, social capital, cultural capital and local productive knowledge which is no longer found in the territory.