This article focuses on the experiences of developing and using pictograms as visual devices to support Indigenous communities of Amazonian Ecuador. It recognizes the imbalances and contradictions amidst the complex histories and identities of a Latin American state such as Ecuador. The authors emphasize the need to decolonize the design activist imagination and highlight two key issues. The first is in appreciating how historicity operates in this context. The authors show how a non-teleological, historical consciousness is central to processes of deliberation and collaboration. Secondly, they introduce the concept of ‘militant design research’ to understand the role of the activist researcher in this context. These reflections challenge European and North American conceptions of design activism and social design. Consequently, the design-researcher’s subject position shifts away from an extractivist mode and, instead, commits to the tensions and Indigenous political processes within which the pictograms function.

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抵抗象形图：亚马逊厄瓜多尔的历史性和激进设计研究

本文重点介绍开发和使用象形图作为视觉设备来支持亚马逊厄瓜多尔土著社区的经验。它认识到厄瓜多尔等拉丁美洲国家复杂的历史和身份中存在的不平衡和矛盾。作者强调需要使设计活动家的想象力去殖民化，并强调两个关键问题。首先是了解历史性在这种背景下如何运作。作者展示了非目的论的历史意识如何成为审议和合作过程的核心。其次，他们引入了“激进设计研究”的概念，以理解激进研究者在这种背景下的作用。这些反思挑战了欧洲和北美的设计行动主义和社会设计的概念。因此，设计研究者的主体立场从提取主义模式转变，转而致力于象形图发挥作用的紧张局势和土著政治进程。