Abstract
This article presents the experience of realizing a discussion forum on Design and its relation with materials as a methodological strategy to structure a “Cartography of Materials”. The event had a different configuration from the way it is normally set up in Brazil, for it promoted an articulation among academic researchers, companies that produce materials and products as well as designers working in the market. The aim was to increase the potentialities of working in the three areas involved: teaching/learning, autonomous professional working and serial industrial production. The proposal’s thematic core consisted of a reflection on the possibilities of the material as a conditioning requisite of the contemporary projectual practice, a theme seldom approached as the main subject at Brazilian events in the field of Design. Thus the “Senac Symposium on Materials”, a forum with a national scope, produced an interdisciplinary reflection on the multiple possibilities of materials use in Design projects, most of all on the structuring/configuring conditions for projectual thought and for the techno-productive relations present in objects in our contemporary society.
Keywords
case study, collaborative design research, design and material, design and sustainability, identity and design
Citation
Dantas, D. (2006) Senac Symposium on Materials: an experience to give guidelines for a “Cartography of Materials”, in Friedman, K., Love, T., Côrte-Real, E. and Rust, C. (eds.), Wonderground - DRS International Conference 2006, 1-4 November, Lisbon, Portugal. https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2006/researchpapers/6
Senac Symposium on Materials: an experience to give guidelines for a “Cartography of Materials”
This article presents the experience of realizing a discussion forum on Design and its relation with materials as a methodological strategy to structure a “Cartography of Materials”. The event had a different configuration from the way it is normally set up in Brazil, for it promoted an articulation among academic researchers, companies that produce materials and products as well as designers working in the market. The aim was to increase the potentialities of working in the three areas involved: teaching/learning, autonomous professional working and serial industrial production. The proposal’s thematic core consisted of a reflection on the possibilities of the material as a conditioning requisite of the contemporary projectual practice, a theme seldom approached as the main subject at Brazilian events in the field of Design. Thus the “Senac Symposium on Materials”, a forum with a national scope, produced an interdisciplinary reflection on the multiple possibilities of materials use in Design projects, most of all on the structuring/configuring conditions for projectual thought and for the techno-productive relations present in objects in our contemporary society.