Mediações entre o design e os trançados indígenas e artesanais paranaenses

Abstract

This academic work presents an approach to the studies of material culture, memory and formation of identities, with a focus on indigenous ethnic crafts from Paraná. Taking as a starting point the bibliographic review about the interaction between people and artifacts, the main objective is to investigate, through data survey, the relationship between current handicraft productions and the influence coming from the indigenous braids, based on the method of the generating object. The results of the research, as well as the analysis of the material productions served as a basis for the development of a discussion about the role of design as a tool for social innovation, which favors the visibility of subject-positions, culture, traditional knowledge and mainly diminishing the existing barriers between design and handicrafts.