Livro das inquietações: experiências singulares no ensino do design

Abstract

The dissertation named “Unquiet Book: Singular Experiences in Design’s Teaching” is linked to the Visual Arts Graduate Program, at the Arts Center of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL), and aims to build methodological and theoretical strategies of qualitative approach by considering the unique experiences of students during the teaching internship at the Discipline of Visual Identity, from UFPEL’s Design Digital Course. At first, this work performs a literature review about the educational narratives by many education institutions; after that, it investigates issues related to aesthetic education, sensitive knowledge, singular experiences and visual culture; at a following moment, it opens up a debate about the design like a neutral and/or authorship profession, to finally present a panorama of the teaching of design in Brazil and describe the pedagogical project of the course in question. In a second stage, fifteen visual identity projects, developed by students of the Visual Identity’s Discipline, are organized according to models of authorship in design (ROCK, 1996) and analyzed as “Experiences in Evolution” (DEWEY , 2010). This research’s aim is that the relationship between the teaching proposal, called Self Marks Project, and the student’s experiences, stimulated by visual culture, contribute to the creation and be able to develop a kind of sensitives and self-conscious design projects.