Revitalizing and transmitting heritage and local memories: building collaborative processes between design and crafts

• Autor(a) principal: Rijo, Cátia
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Grácio, Helena, Antunes, Sandra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/9343
• topic: Collaborative platforms; Educational contexts; Interaction design; Creative Practices; Interdisciplinarity; Plataformas colaborativas; Contextos educacionais; Design interação; Práticas Criativas; Interdisciplinaridade

The purpose of this communication is to present a collaborative project founded in fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in formal, informal and culturally plural learning contexts, considering educational practices and projectual alternatives to the non-participatory model, centered in the classroom. We intend to undertake ways of projecting in the future the material and immaterial heritage and memory kept within human and material diversity. Product designers are conventionally educated to read, understand and work in obedience to norms. The norm denies the unique and diverse. Gathering artisans, designers and artists, along with students from the Visual Arts and Technologies Degree (from Lisbon’s Polytechnic ESELx) we aim to go further. The presented case takes place in the Portuguese villages of Nisa and Coruche. Bringing students in context (providing them ways to assess and understand local memory) awakes senses and reasons to consider identity (human, natural and material), arising the perception that a product exceeds its objectivity and that both culture and identity acquire new expressions through it. Our purpose is to reflect on the application of collaborative and participative methodologies in design teaching, contributing for the research and development of approaches in active collaboration of learning, through knowledge of practical problems in real scenarios.