Tecnologia social lúdica: instrumento de promoção à saúde e ao desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

Social technologies are defined as techniques, processes or products developed and improved in interaction with the population that will benefit from them, aimed at solving social problems they experience. In this study, ludic educational instruments, created and improved in contact with territories, are understood as social technologies, capable of transforming the territory whose needs gave rise to them. The objective of this study was to develop educational social technologies of a ludic nature with the potential to promote health and foster sustainable development. To this end, the sustainabilitythemed ludic instruments present in scientific literature were initially identified, as well as those characteristics that make them capable of promoting cooperative attitudes and stimulating behavioral changes in favor of sustainable development. To this end, predominantly qualitative research was carried out, of an applied nature, initially bibliographic, with secondary data obtained through a systematic literature review, which revealed 27 publications on the topic. Incorporating characteristics highlighted in the research corpus, processes and products were then developed to work with the population in actions to promote health and foster sustainable development. This study presents three case studies, reporting the creation, development, and application of two games and a workshop. The games presented are at different stages of maturation, one of which was validated through a semi-structured Likert-type questionnaire, analyzed using the Delphi technique, having completed all the stages that qualify it for delivery to the end user. The described workshop was designed and carried out contributing to the discussion of social technologies as a social product derived from a participatory process. The cases presented are discussed in the light of Critical Theory of Technology , from the Science, Technology and Society Field (STS). The substrate that permeates concepts and theories used in this study is participatory culture, which produces transformations in territories. It is concluded that the characteristics present in the developed artifacts stimulate changes in values and induce collaborative attitudes and can be incorporated into strategies for disseminating knowledge and promoting individual, collective, and environmental health. The thesis contributes to strengthening the STS field, as it connects the needs of territories with the development of appropriate technologies that respond to their populations and gives ludic artifacts a dimension that transcends their use as fun and education.