Revisiting Memory and Heritage to a Common Future

• Autor(a) principal: Rijo, Cátia
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Grácio, Helena, Antunes, Sandra Sofia P.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/12023
• topic: Social and collaborative design; Collaborative platforms; Identity; Educational contexts; Inclusion

The present communication presents a collaborative project founded in fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in contexts of formal, informal and culturally plural learning, on the road to educational practices and projectual alternatives to non-participatory model, centered in the classroom. More specifically, by the gathering of artisans, designers, engineers and artists, we aim to present a project to be developed with the design students from the Visual Arts and Technologies Degree, from ESE-IPL in the present academic year (2015/2016), in partnership with engineer students from the Electronic, Telecommunications and Engineering Degree from ISEL-IPL, with two specific communities, the artisans and its community from the Nisa, in Alto Alentejo, Portugal and with the cork industry and its community from Coruche, in Ribatejo, Portugal. Our purpose is to reflect on the application of collaborative and participative methodologies in the teaching of arts and design in polytechnic studies, in order to contribute for the research and development of new approaches in the active collaboration of learning, through the knowledge of real and practical problems in real life scenarios, between student designers and communities. In this way, we hope to widen the perceptual field of the various participants, the reading levels of equity realities involved, the individual and collective memory, of scientific knowledge, techniques, technologies, thus contributing to the consideration of different levels of meaning. The project is aimed to create, local and global collaborative platforms. Taking advantage of the uniqueness as a way to multiply the diverse and global dimension, to strengthen local identities or to create new identities, minoring the sense of loss of identity, acting for the benefit of present and future generations. This work seeks to reflect about the added value of the use of participative methodologies in design education, as a contribution to put together the different actors involved.