Design, craftwork and participation: reflections for the productive autonomy of women in Maranhão

• Autor(a) principal: Noronha, Raquel Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Farias, Luiza Gomes Duarte, Portela, Raiama Lima
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: DATJournal
• Texto Completo: https://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/642
• topic: Artesanato, Autonomia, Design Participativo, Maranhão; Handicraft, Autonomy, Participatory Design; Maranhão; Artesanía, Autonomía, Diseño Participativo; maranhão; Artisanat, Autonomie, Design; Participative; Maranhão

Among the various approaches of Brazilian´s traditional handicrafts context, the income prodution and productive autonomy of women stand out as priorities in the promotion of gender equity. In this paper, we discuss the possibilities and challenges of thinking and designing with women artisans towards economic autonomy, questioning the use of institutionalized parameters, such as those for measuring female empowerment, applied by the World Economic Forum. Based on participatory design and the use of photo-elicitation tools, we proposed actions to map production chains and the co-creation of materials for the commercialization of artisanal products, aiming at the discussion about autonomy production of artisans and their promotion. We sought to share worldviews from awareness and initiatives to promote handicraft production, treated in this article as a multiple case study (YIN, 2005), in three productive groups at Maranhão. As a result, a debate is presented on how autonomy is produced and perceived: as a process of conscious self-regulation of such productive groups with the social actors involved in their production chains.