Correteo

Autoethnography

“For many years, the idea of correteo has come with deep shame. My repression towards it has denied me the possibility of further exploring its potential, and has distanced me from my inner child. Today, I see correteo under a new light. I claim it as a significant agent in my own development, and the foundation for my design identity.”

Design has always been to me a highly introspective practice. Thus, Correteo represents one of the most important design projects that I have committed to, for it has managed to stand as a design undertaking while rooting from a deeply personal space. It has come as two interconnected projects: one of an autoethnographic healing process, and the other of a dissection of personal creative rituals with the intention of collectivizing them. It has shed light on practices from my own personal upbringing, reframed as meditative and creative possibilities. The project has challenged my own prejudices, while creating a space for me to disclose fundamental aspects of my persona, hoping it might resonate with others and push a conversation on unconventional design processes. 

Following months of self analysis, childhood recollection, and necessary conversations with family members, the insights of Correteo were brought together in three final pieces, which were exhibited alongside the project process in Margarita Studio in Madrid. The first piece consisted of ‘a series of conditions of possibility towards disposition of correteo’, presenting a set of identified circumstances towards enabling correteo, instead of presenting it as a guided methodology. The other two pieces were journal entries, in which correteo was thoroughly analyzed and shared, one based on a collection of personal anecdotes, and another which reflected on correteo and tackled it as a process that could become available to anyone.