30 UDIT students take part in a month-long ethnographic research project applied to design in China.

• The province of Guizhou, in China, has been the epicentre of this transversal pedagogical activity.

Fashion teacher Adriana Cagigas, through her firm DEYI LIVING, has developed an ethnographic research project applied to design, centred in the Chinese province of Guizhou, in collaboration with UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology.

In this project, which began last August, 30 students from the degrees in Fashion Design, Fashion Management and Communication, Multimedia and Graphic Design, Product Design, Design and Development of Video Games and Virtual Environments, Animation and the Master's Degree in Product Design have participated.

With the aim of developing a learning process through sensorial, physical and emotional experiences, and with the intention of developing a transversal pedagogical experience for all the University's training programmes, this project was born with the Dong ethnic group, a culture defined by its textile expertise.

UDIT students have had the opportunity to live for more than a month with a group of artisans of the Dong ethnic group, located in the Chinese province of Guizhou, a rural mountainous area still virgin and with its own cultural identity, developing a mapping of all their cultural traits and attending different workshops in which to learn the different textile crafts of the area, both in textile finishing processes and weaving processes. The main objective is to generate, through the different disciplines of design, an exhibition that disseminates all the content collected, giving rise to a close approximation to the artisan ecosystem of the province.

Throughout the course, the students will develop different audiovisual, graphic and textile proposals, with the intention of generating a museum experience that will make this experience accessible.

Through this multidisciplinary, multicultural and intergenerational project, UDIT manages to establish a direct collaboration between companies, artisans, students and teachers, with the aim of proposing design solutions that promote the cultural, economic and social development of the context in which the activity takes place.