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This article provides a theoretical contribution based on Sadie Plant’s critiques of the notion of virtuality as pure immateriality. Plant uses Ada Lovelace’s logic of the ‘Analytical Engine’ as a base, reinterpreting it as a feminine practice associated with the act of weaving, which has been repressed by official cyberculture. From this perspective, the article examines how Remedios Zafra identifies a continuity of this logic in domestic ‘prosumption’ practices, emphasizing their potential to achieve subjective autonomy, albeit subordinated to being captured by the neoliberal digital economy. Finally, Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action is introduced as a materialist ontology of the virtual, complementing Plant’s critiques and addressing the ambiguity of prosumption as discussed by Zafra. This ontology challenges techno-libertarian immaterialism by interpreting ‘digital objects’ as co-productive or intra-objective relations between the analog and the digital.

This article examines pedagogical transformations in the author’s university teaching practice through an engagement with Brazilian Afro-Indigenous thought and its relationship to decolonial perspectives in design. The article links an encounter with a group of Yawanawá women in the Brazilian Amazon to personal and pedagogical bifurcations that traverse the field of architecture. It analyzes the methodological strategies applied while supervising the Final Degree Projects presented at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), which have fostered a historiographic questioning movement, both in terms of references and methodological practices. It concludes that these pedagogical experiences bring together different logics, including the students’ interest in exploring and experimenting with non-canonical ways of thinking about and practicing architecture in collaboration with situated communities and territories.

Inclusivity is a contemporary social discourse that calls for practices enabling equal, just, or fair access to resources and opportunities. Designers and researchers are increasingly requested and pressured to take an active role as agents of inclusion. However, many current framings take positive outlooks at face value and do not address the root causes of exclusion. As researchers affiliated with design, we offer a critical discussion of this concept by problematizing and reflexively engaging with it. We position the argument that inclusion is always a meeting of agencies. Instead of striving to adopt and affirm ideal types, we acknowledge the value of recognizing the agencies made visible through frictions, which invite possibilities for negotiation and refusal as outcomes. Hence, inclusion frames relational practices with results that cannot be controlled―meaning that positive and negative effects coexist as part of social dynamism.

This article discusses Static Cycle-Biotope for Ants, Plants, and Humans (2024), an interactive eco-art installation that creates a biotope for a biological community containing both plants and Messor barbarus ants. This dynamic space encourages collaboration and mutual observation, questioning the division between nature and culture and exploring the shared agency between humans and other living beings. In its version installed at the Museum of Science and Water in Murcia, the public pedals to maintain the ecosystem, exploring intra-actions, according to Karen Barad’s theoretical framework. The artwork critiques traditional causality, proposing a relational ontology that reveals how human and non-human actions co-constitute shared realities that are shaped as interfaces of inter-species cooperation that, in turn, promote the production of a biophilic subjectivity.

The United States of America has pioneered initiatives, policies, and pedagogies to diversify its higher education student bodies. In design education, for instance, students are taught to self-represent their cultures and those of their ancestors instead of representing others. Like many activities touched by neoliberal multiculturalism, however, this institutionalization of diversity does not fundamentally alter the historical negative differentiation between student and faculty, White and non-White, or male and female bodies. Following Sarah Ahmed, this autoethnographic militant design research reconceptualizes institutional diversity as a contradiction that can be felt and critically worked by a design student body through collective, not just individual, self-representation.

This article examines how traditional design methodologies predominantly serve Western and colonial interests, urging designers to rethink their foundations through decolonial theories and methods. By grounding the research in the context of migration between Mexico and the United States, it dives into a case study, proposes textiles and cultural artifacts as design tools, and offers a methodology rooted in oral histories, traditions, and localized design approaches. Using untailored faldas (skirts) as a narrative canvas, it demonstrates an alternative approach to design research that emphasizes learning from collaborative storytelling. The methodology centers on three critical principles: a deep immersion in the research context; conceptualizing stories and experiences as research artifacts; and identifying inherent tensions between researchers and their methodological tools. This approach challenges extractive research methods, celebrating research participants’ lived experiences. By prioritizing narrative, cultural context, and participant agency, the research reframes design as a decolonial practice that values pluralistic ways of knowing and understanding.

El estudio incluyó 130 participantes, 46 hombres (35,84%) y 84 mujeres (64,62%), con edades entre 20 y 25 años, cursando del 6to al 10mo semestre en clínica de especialidades odontológicas. De ellos, 80 no presentaron riesgos ergonómicos, mientras que los demás sí. La especialidad más frecuente fue Operatoria con 64 participantes, seguida de Endodoncia (32), Rehabilitación (24), Cirugía (6) y Periodoncia (4). El análisis de regresión logística bivariado indicó una mayor probabilidad de problemas ergonómicos relacionados con posturas corporales. La postura de espalda doblada presentó menor riesgo ergonómico y sirvió como referencia en el análisis multivariado. Comparando con la postura recta (OR: 1,08; p = 0,897) y la postura recta y torcida (OR: 2,3; p = 0,09), estas no mostraron significancia estadística en cuanto a aumentar el riesgo ergonómico. Sin embargo, la postura doblada y torcida incrementó significativamente el riesgo ergonómico (OR: 48,23; p < 0,001). En cuanto a la posición de los brazos, el análisis univariado no mostró significancia para brazos por debajo o al nivel de los hombros, pero tener un brazo por encima de los hombros aumentó significativamente el riesgo ergonómico (OR: 18,43; p < 0,001). Las posiciones de las piernas no mostraron resultados significativos en términos de riesgo ergonómico. El análisis multivariado confirmó que tener un brazo por encima del nivel de los hombros aumenta el riesgo de problemas ergonómicos en 48 veces (OR: 41,08; IC95%: 10,57 – 159,62; p < 0,001). Asimismo, adoptar una postura de espalda doblada y torcida incrementa el riesgo en 109 veces (OR: 109,3; IC95%: 20,48 – 573,24; p < 0,001).

Background: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an X-linked disorder caused by a mutation in the FMR1 gene. It has a prevalence of 1/4000 in males and 1/8000 in females. This syndrome is associated with medical problems, intellectual disability, and language deficits. The craniofacial characteristics include a long and narrow face, prominent forehead, ears, and jaw. Despite its high prevalence, it remains poorly understood within the dental field. Objective: Describe the craniofacial, dental, and functional characteristics of patients with FXS through an exploratory literature review. Material and Methods: An electronic search was conducted in the databases of PubMed, Elsevier, Scielo, and Cochrane. The terms used were (("fragile x syndrome") AND (("characteristics") OR ("dentistry") OR ("dental") OR ("orthodontic") OR ("systemic characteristics"))); ("fragile X syndrome") AND ("dentistry"); "fragile X syndrome" AND (("characteristics"); and "fragile X syndrome". Results: The initial search generated 303 articles, and after the selection process, 18 studies were included as part of the review. Conclusion: Patients with FXS present systemic, craniofacial, and cognitive characteristics that affect their oral health and function. Further studies associated with orthodontic and oral functional areas are suggested, as the literature is limited.

El presente trabajo buscará analizar la realidad institucional de la cámara regia durante el reinado de Enrique III de Castilla (1390-1406), tomando como base principal la Relación de efectos que Pedro Fernández recibía y entregaba de orden del rey (AGS, PR, legajo 29, documento 28), documento que ofrece un detallado registro sobre el funcionamiento de la cámara real entre el 28 de agosto de 1397 y el 19 de agosto de 1398. El estudio buscará delimitar esta realidad institucional, analizando su funcionamiento burocrático interno y las operaciones realizadas bajo el control del camarero Pedro Fernández en torno a la entrada (cargo) y salida (data) de los bienes de la cámara. El trabajo permite poner de relieve la importancia de esta institución como un órgano burocratizado, en el que pesaría su papel como gestor de la gracia regia y como fondo dinerario extraordinario de la realeza, lejos de sus perfiles estrictamente domésticos.

The following is an edited version of the conversation held by some members of the editorial team of the journal with Mariela Garrido González, senior associate lawyer at VGC Abogados; Osvaldo Durán Mena, legal analyst at the Departamento de Planificación y Normas Urbanas in the División de Desarrollo Urbano at the Chilean Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo; and Edesio Carrasco Quiroga, partner at Schultz Carrasco Benítez Abogados and lecturer in the LLM UC Master's program. The conversation was moderated by Gonzalo Guerrero Valle, partner at AGPP Abogados and lecturer in the LLM UC Master's program. The conversation took place on November 7, 2024, in the offices of LLM UC.