Designing Time

Here is a link from the AIGA website about a group of student designers who redesigned a calendar for the Wixárika people in central Mexico.

From the site, "As many Wixáritari (plural of Wixárika) understand western practices and values, they increasingly migrate to urban centers in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit to study and work, often finding their cultural traditions and practices devalued and misunderstood. This is particularly evident in issues that relate to time. In contrast to the fixed western calendar, Wixáritari's beliefs and practices are aligned with nature's continuous cycle and careful observation of natural signs. As each culture's conception of time is based on different values, tensions develop (Maria Rogal, 2006)."

Thanks to Dori Tunstall for the link.


Also, on another note, here's a revisit to an older poster I did last year: Photos of Photos. I think it's worth looking at again because they're old photos and there's a lot to study here about the nostalgia aspect of time, and the idea of subjective memory when thinking of time.