La nueva cultura material y el territorio : diseño de biomateriales reutilizando desechos vitivinícolas en la Quebrada de Humahuaca

In the context of a deep environmental crisis caused by the accelerated proliferation of industrial production and consumption, the overexploitation of natural resources, and the constant generation of waste, there is an urgent need to review and redefine the paradigms of our design processes. This research, which integrates practice and theory, proposes a reflection based on the experience of designing biomaterials derived from the recycling of viticultural waste in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy. The focus of this proposal is based, on one hand, on a transition towards a new material culture that rethinks our relationship with materials, conceiving them within a continuous flow of transformation that impacts the environment. On the other hand, it considers the territory as a community of life that encompasses interventions and interactions between human and non-human organisms. The territory is involved both in the availability of resources for the practical experience and in the approach to the millenary worldview of the Andean culture, which remains present in the Quebrada. From this relational perspective, the design of biomaterials is not only presented as a sustainable alternative for recycling industrial organic waste, but also as a tool capable of transforming worlds and creating meaning through the intersection of various fields, actors, processes, and knowledge.