Esta pesquisa abarca os percursos históricos e os vetores didático-pedagógicos do design social compreendido como abordagem sociopolítica de projeto. Ao considerar a repercussão do tema a partir do ensino institucionalizado no Brasil, o enfoque privilegia o campo do design em perspectiva humanista e à luz da história social. Em termos metodológicos, as seguintes estratégias balizam uma intervenção discursiva: a) micro-história; b) revisão narrativa de literatura; c) análise de intercâmbios de design; d) análise de fontes históricas na imprensa; e) história oral. Desse modo, a tese de doutorado tem por objetivo o oferecimento de uma dupla contribuição ao campo. Ao passo que a investigação oportuniza um acréscimo nos estudos de história do design, a proposta reside em contextualizar a alternativa teórico-prática do design social na educação, desdobrada nos domínios da pedagogia do design, pesquisa e extensão universitária, com ênfase no cenário brasileiro.

The research group aims to investigate and discuss the ways in which subjectivity is produced in the field of Design, in dialog with other areas of knowledge. The research seeks to explore the multiple possibilities of perception and action in the contemporary world, structured by information and communication technologies. One of the group's areas of study focuses on how perceptions and sensitivities regarding the use of digital technologies are somehow representative in the context of design teaching. Other research addresses issues such as surveillance capitalism and data colonialism, which are crossed by neoliberal logic. We are also investigating the idea of emancipatory education, digital activism and the free software movement. The group is interested in the study of the philosophy of technology and is currently studying the book Technodiversity by the philosopher Yuk Hui, who advocates a multiplicity of cosmotechniques.

The Arruar group is committed to research practices as an encounter with other practices that dispute the production of the world, especially those that cultivate territories for reinventing life in more collective, supportive and democratic ways. Making the street a verb provokes multiple meanings that are actualized by taking research to the street, as well as the street to academic practice: arruar as ways of investigating territories from the body, memory, experience and everyday life; as an articulation between the many floors, from the peripheries to the centralities, from the city to the non-city, from the material to the imagined, their flows and mobilities; as a critical experimentation with colonial forms of academic practice based on practices of coexistence and mixing of knowledges. Mobilizing written, imagetic, performative and cartographic experimentation, among other ways of 'doing with', Arruar seeks to empower transformative social action, new ecologies and habitabilities through narratives and territorial policies.

Design & Oppression is a network of solidarity between all struggles against oppression founded in 2020. The aim of the network is to establish links of solidarity between all struggles against oppression that involve design as a tool, space or issue to be transformed. This network extends the tradition of Latin American critical thinking from Education, Arts and Sociology to the field of Design. In addition to actions aimed at training critical designers, the network also promotes concrete and ongoing social actions. At the moment, the network carries out the following activities:

Site: https://www.designeopressao.org