ABSTRACT
PUERTO RICO PDC PLACE-COUNTERnarratives: Social Assemblages is done with the purpose of sentipensar (Escobar, 2014) and making processes visible from the Caribbean understanding how they are generated and developed, knowing the obstacles they face, finding common ground, and establishing ties of collaboration. The authors propose a poetic infrastructure (Larkin, 2013) between the Caribbean that allows exchange about space to strengthen our community of practitioners. COUNTERnarratives: Social Assemblages is a horizontal and collaborative discussion of knowledge production and dialogue. Our islands, although geographically close, are economically distant from each other due to the cost of travel and political factors. Our design community tends to look to the global North for peer communication, so our understanding of each other can be spotty, and various factors can disrupt engagement. A Counternarrative (Giroux, 1996) challenges the exclusionary processes of the status quo and proposes alternatives from a critical perspective that interconnects diverse experiences and knowledge. The COUNTERnarrative generated from the activity will be from Caribbean situated knowledge (Haraway, 1988). Given the historical situation, we are experiencing as islands (climate change and hurricanes, earthquakes, COVID-19, Fiscal Control Boards, assassination of President Jovenel Moise, etc.), it is imperative to reflect on who we are now and who we want to be in the future. How can we help each other among the Caribbean with the idea of emphasizing our roots and our identity through horizontal processes of participation? We need to respond and reflect on: What is our role? How can we emphasize and build on the union with the rest of the Caribbean? © 2022 Owner/Author.