O fazer criador de si e do mundo: um olhar sobre a experiência dos processos experimentais no ensino de design contemporâneo

Abstract

This research has as its study object the experiences made possible by creative processes in which free experimentation is prioritized. Taking place in the context of higher education in design, in this work, we look at experimentation as errancy and investigation that enables breakdowns (VARELA, 2003) – collapses that destabilize commonplace ways of acting, create new ways of operating, reinvent worlds and ways to live. Distancing ourselves from the capitalist production values that also guide teaching, we reflect on the contribution of these "errant experiences" to the training of designers in contemporary times, understanding the higher education in design as a possibility of suspension space of this productivist logic, configuring itself as a safe and a inviting environment to intense experimentation through making. Through conversations with design students and teachers, we sought to bring together different points of view on the experience of experimental marking as a pedagogical practice. When we relate the environment of higher education in design to a circus ring that, with its safety net, reassures the acrobat – this professional with his body suspended in the air, also hiding the perfect performance – for learning his practice, we suggest that the suspension of the productivist logic takes place based on three elaborations: facing the risk, the error, the non-standard; the collective production that subverts the idea of effectiveness through affectivity; and the adoption of a non-traditional teaching model, which expands the boundaries of the physical space of classrooms.