Colocando a existência em jogo na educação crítica em design

Abstract

The present project arose from the desire to encourage design students to understand and seck relevant actions for their limiting situations through the development of collective consciousness. To this end, a project started in an optional discipline of the Bachelor of Design course at UTFPR, called Crisis Deck, it was documented and continued. This deck was developed to propose reflections about “existential crises” experienced by Design students. It is hoped that this work can not only be used in group dynamics with students, but also contribute to research on critical design education. First. Bibliographical research was done relating Freirean pedagogical theories. Alvaro Vieira Pinto’s concepts of consciousness and project. And the Design Livre approach and ideology that influenced the deck project. Next, the documentation of the class’s experience during the course and the project’s development started, based on interviews with the students and on the records made by the class teacher. Consulting bibliographies about the history and structure of the UTFPR in the context of Brazilian higher education also helped to better understand the crises of the design students, in order to build the foundations of the object to be designed. In addition. Two experiments were conducted with groups of students to study their interactious with the deck prototype. Thus, the research highlights the importance of critical education, as a university extensionist approach to prepare students to exercise limit -acts in the face of concrete limit-situations.