Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

This work shows an actualization proposal to the art and design curricular program from the Art and Design bachelor in the Intercultural University of Mexico State, based on the politics about the New Mexican School and the incipient intercultural educative model in Mexico. This work is the effort to transcend the obsolete art and design teaching practice based on the established roll master-apprentice, reassessing the previous knowledge of the student. I also present the student features of the intercultural universities in Mexico, that determines mainly the rethinking of the teaching process, particularly in the art and design studies. Most of them become from rural contexts, spoke indigenous languages, become from artisan communities and already know different ways to create an aesthetic object. That is why the curricular program attempts to recognize the creative skills and the expressions of the cultural way of living of the students, giving them the tools to recreate cultural objects that empower not only their personal beings but the cultural identity of an entire community.