Pensar-com imagens: subversões e fabulações em torno da bandeira nacional brasileira

Abstract

This document presents a study of modified versions of the Brazilian national flag, carried out through gathering actions (LE GUIN, 1989) of varied origins and authors. This set of images is organized, divided and read based on a relational analysis, supported by the conception of research as a practice of correspondence (GATT and INGOLD, 2013). In this investigation, the Brazilian national flag is presented as an image of aesthetic dissent – a condition present since its institution as a national symbol, in the Proclamation of the Republic, but which became even more acute and visible between the years 2013 and 2023, the proposed time frame for gathering images in this work. The dissertation aims to investigate theoretical approaches between design activism practices and speculative fabulation experiments (HARAWAY, 2023). As a contribution, a collection of 338 images of mobilization and reinterpretation of the Brazilian flag is presented, from different authors and sources, which can be observed as plural uses of design applied to images of communication and political motivation. Furthermore, the potential for expanding critical awareness and reorienting subjectivities that design activism actions and speculative narrations carry is defended, contributing to the development and updating of research and practices in the field of design.