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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento |Vol. 10 Nº 18| JUN 2025 | Dossier: The multiscalar. Deadline for full manuscript submission: December 31, 2024. 

Lighting the community: Design Anthropology and Participatory Design as a Social Approach

Authors

  • Juliana Rodrigues Bittencourt Laboratório de Criatividade do Parque Científico e Tecnológico da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6074-1351
  • Aline Tusset De Rocco Laboratório de Criatividade do Parque Científico e Tecnológico da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3647-9204
  • Luzia Menegotto Frick De Moura Laboratório de Criatividade do Parque Científico e Tecnológico da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4997-7985
  • Ana Berger Laboratório de Criatividade do Parque Científico e Tecnológico da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3245-6702
Vol. 7 No. 12 (2022): June
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2022.66891

Abstract

This article aims to analyze a social project developed by a multidisciplinary group based on the theories of the emerging field of Design Anthropology (DA). Supported by a co-creation approach, the Parada do Sol project was facilitated by professionals from the Tecnopuc Creativity Laboratory (Tecnopuc Crialab) based on Participatory Design processes. The project aimed to support the community in its desire to initiate a process of social transformation through technology using renewable energy. The main objective of this article is to identify the benefits of using design processes to take advantage of local potential and meet the challenges brought by the real needs of the territory. The main contributions observed were that co-creation proved to be an important approach within the project, leading to the identification of a more relevant intervention for the community; for non-designer participants, this work model allowed the materialization of important solutions for the community, with the idealization of a sustainable bus stop.

Keywords:

Design Anthropology, Participatory Design, brazilian community, multidisciplinary group, renewable energy.

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Rodrigues Bittencourt, J., De Rocco, A. T., Frick De Moura, L. M., & Berger, A. . (2022). Lighting the community: Design Anthropology and Participatory Design as a Social Approach. RChD: Creación Y Pensamiento, 7(12), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2022.66891
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