Racionalismo y experimentación en el diseño chileno: un enfoque comparativo desde la producción de objetos en la Bauhaus

From different Chilean design objects visual configuration, this article makes a comparative analysis between design objects produced in Chile at the beginning of the 21st century and objects produced at Bauhaus in the beginning of the 20th century in Germany. Based on visual analysis that includes six chilean designers and architects who explore the objects and furniture design, the categories experimentation and rationality within the chilean object production are analyzed, from a phenomenological and comparative approach with the object production made by academics, students and designers graduated from the Bauhaus. We observe that, as in the academic methods at Bauhaus, in chilean design the intersections between artisanal and industrial production processes are still in force, establishing links that despite the current technological mediation, continue to create instances of hybridization to address the design process from both dimensions, that of intuitive experimentation and that of formal rationalism. Finally, the research explores how the otherness configuration in experimentation and rationalism in design proposed by the Bauhaus, generated a hybrid device, which managed to articulate a principle of variety within the unit, favoring the coexistence of different creative currents under a common program around to functionalism, but without canceling these two dimensions that design can achieve, making these differences a constitutive element of its identity.