Design, body and technopolitics
This research project investigates the historical, social and political relations of the field of Design as a device that operates in the conformation of gender and sexuality discourses in Western society. Through Queer, (Trans) Feminist and Decolonial studies, as well as historical research, this project proposes a critical and propositional approach to the political implications of design as a mediation technology in the normalisation of bodies. In this sense, the project also aims to investigate and publicise aesthetic-political practices and graphic memories that form counter-normative networks of resistance to erasure in the face of dominant regimes of visibility in a defined spatiality and temporality such as Brazil - and Latin America from the second half of the 20th century onwards.