The project seeks to investigate, discuss and combat relations of oppression that manifest themselves in the training process of designers. From the perspective of oppressions, we seek to identify how these are manifested in the multiple facets of the training of designers, such as curricula, pedagogical and institutional practices, relationships with clients and users, etc. Based on the notion of praxis, the research also seeks to develop theory and practice in an articulated way as a way of intervening in reality and transforming and combating the processes of oppression that (de)form designers.

Período de inscrições: 15 de setembro a 15 de outubro de 2023.

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Organização: Marcio Baraco

18/09
25/09
02/10
09/10
sempre as 16h no PPDESDI

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Co-operation between Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial - ESDI and INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCACAO, CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DO RIO DE JANEIRO (RIO DE JANEIRO FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

Research with various developments on the two-way street between the visual arts and design, and cinema, with an emphasis on the friction between the textual element and audiovisual media.

How can an academic project in design avoid anachronisms while maintaining a contemporary pedagogical spirit, committed to the founding ideals of its Bauhausian ‘matrix’? And more specifically, how can the experimental approach to the ‘dynamic image’ presented in works such as those by Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray and Oskar Schlemmer be updated, considering the current state of moving image technologies?

Laboratory for research and development of assistive technology.

Based on the call for ‘planning guided by theories of involvement’, proposed by sociologist Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro, the research seeks to link, stitch and entangle authors, theories, practices and practitioners in the territories by creating a cartography that aims to tell stories - examples - capable of affecting and providing glimpses from their ways of doing things, of theories of involvement that provide tools to help social action dispute futures from the various worlds of the present. The intention is to contribute to the formulation of a critique of the model of progress and the notion of development constructed in modernity and in the political-cultural processes of the 20th century from the field of architecture, urbanism, design and urban planning. Drawing three images of involvement as a starting point - (1) autonomy and territories of commons (2) good living and places of decolonisation of thought (3) dreaming, fabulating and telling other stories - the research investigates ‘critical micro-ecologies’, understood as places, movements, collectivities, territorialities, built and maintained through practices of autonomy and processes of struggle and cooperation that point the way to the construction of an agenda for the transformation of paradigms for thought and action on the urban, the land and collective life in the context of the current civilisational and environmental crisis that we can associate with the word Anthropocene. .

By rescuing part of the collection of bibliologist Orlando da Costa Ferreira (OCF), this project aims to catalogue and map the Brazilian printing industry in the 1950s and 1960s. This will be done by digitising and analysing the texts published by Orlando da Costa Ferreira in newspapers between June 1957 and April 1964. The final product of this research, in addition to the production of scientific articles, will be the launch of a book containing a selection of this material and essays by researchers taking part in the project.

This research aims to explore the rapprochement between the areas of design and moving images, including cinema, video, animated films, digital images generated by programming and images circulating on social media. It is intended to address the issue from both a historical and contemporary genealogical perspective.

Development of a parameterised methodology, according to various factors, to calculate the costs involved in medical graduation; Forms of decentralising the provision of health services - A comparative study of the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of decentralising the provision of health services, such as OSSs, direct management, State Foundations, etc.

The discussion of innovation management and entrepreneurship has been gaining relevance over the years. At a global level, the United States and China are considered to be the countries that invest the most in innovation and, as a result, end up having an impact on the innovation agenda of other trading partner countries. In Europe, the countries belonging to the European Union aim to increase investment in innovation, but few of them have investments close to the desired level, which is 3 per cent of GDP (EUROSTAT, 2019). Studies carried out by Booz Allen Hamilton draw attention to the lack of correlation between levels of innovation funding and corporate performance (Booz Allen Hamilton, 2006). The need for innovation as a condition for competitive success, the growing movements for greater investment in innovation and the need to obtain better results from the investment made are all elements that make the discussion of innovation management and entrepreneurship in organisations essential. The innovation process, although well known, takes a long time and the results are rarely known (especially in the early stages of idea generation and research). Some of the resources required by this process, such as creativity, knowledge and techniques, are not very controllable, which makes it difficult to allocate funds for their development. These are some of the particularities that make the management of innovation and entrepreneurship a fundamental issue to be addressed within the framework of the proposal to create this laboratory, called LAGIE - Laboratory for the Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Research, analyse and critique the concepts, elements and factors that influence the actions of technological entrepreneurs that lead to technological innovations, as well as innovation management models that develop regions and change the paradigm of society.

This line of research uses design concepts to support the solution of organisational problems, whether when designing a new business or managing an established company.

The recent downgrading of Rio de Janeiro's investment grade and the state's brutal crisis clearly indicate an inadequate development model and a negative legacy of the mega-events held here. The ‘creative’ plays a role in these processes. The research will develop along two axes:

In order to understand urbanity today, it is necessary to grasp the material dynamics of the mobilisation and constitution of metropolitan territories and, at the same time, more specifically, the urban ‘projects’ that are articulated or try to overlap with the former. Here are some clues for reflection: on the one hand, in the transition from the industrial city to the post-industrial megalopolis, the transformations in the modes of production, accumulation and labour itself and, on the other, the consequences of these transformations on the urban project. It's about reflecting on the encounters and mismatches between the material transformations that traverse and (re)structure metropolitan spaces and the political, economic and, above all, design actions that simultaneously try to deal with these dynamics, determine them or are determined by them. Is the crisis the city's or the project's, the way of designing itself? And how can design contribute?

Taking COP 26 as a starting point, taking into account the visuality of both its institutional framework and the demonstrations in the streets, we realise a certain limitation in the representation of such pressing objectives as the warming of our planet. We understand that even though the objective of reducing greenhouse gases is very well defined, it requires the mobilisation of a much more open imaginary, in other words, other imaginary practices that can give rise to other possibilities for action. We have tried to show here that the guiding authors (Haraway, Latour, Bratton and others) bring with their theoretical approach some practical proposals and, in particular, image practices.

The CURA research group fundamentally seeks to address issues involving the field of Architecture and Urbanism, based on the notions of Resistance and Culture. Its central aim is to develop studies that contribute to mitigating the historic social abyss in the cities of today. Not by chance, the title is organised to build on the acronym that names the group, giving meaning to what the studies and lines proposed seek to build: CURA. Yes, studies that seek to restore the health of cities and buildings and, above all, to heal the wounds opened by social inequality. Since 2015, it has encompassed various academic, design and cultural activities, including: developing and/or supervising research and projects involving UERJ professors and students, as well as researchers from other institutions; organising academic events; and publishing. As an example of the repercussions, we can mention the winning of FAPERJ calls for proposals in 2015 and 2018.

The general aim of this project is to carry out an investigation into the architecture of terreiros in contemporary times, based on their historical relationship with echoes of Afro-Brazilian subjectivity that mark the constructive, formal and typological characteristics of these sacred spaces. The central hypothesis of the research is to understand that the condition of the contemporary architecture of African-origin cult terreiros, in their ways of using space, holds traces that indicate a habitability of traditions, ancestry, quilombismo, etc. The historical relationships, adaptations and strategies of a people who were enslaved and subjected to a new culture of domination generated alternatives of resistance to maintain their faith and religious practices. Thus, the architecture of contemporary terreiros seems to bear many traces of these strategies of resistance and adaptability in their uses and constructive adaptations.

Starting from a scenario in which technological mediation is constituted and condensed as a structural form of relations in an information society, this research takes a fresh look at practices in the field of design teaching. This study looks at how perceptions and sensitivities regarding the use of digital technologies are in some way representative in the context of Esdi's design course. Institutional and private initiatives regarding access to and use of digital technology at Esdi seem to be circumscribed by a whole universe of possibilities and values. The object of this research is to get to know the practices and reflections that take place around digital information and communication technologies in the context of a design course at a public university, ESDI, understanding that this use is a vector for the production of subjectivities in design teaching.