Espaços culturais e design: tecendo relações com o território por meio de processos participativos

Abstract

The research is based on the Participatory Design, Codesign and Design forSocial Innovation approaches, constitutive of a theoretical and methodological framework able to promote conviviality and collective creativity in dialogical processes that broadly encompass the community's "matters of concern" (LATOUR, 2014). From this, these approaches are articulated with theoretical concepts related to space, place and territory, in order to explore design action possibilities in leverage the relationship of cultural spaces with their territory in cities increasingly impacted by people displacements and cultural erasures. In this sense, the research focuses on design processes more and more systemic, integrative and participatory within the city, where an abundantly diverse and intertwined ecosystem is sustained and lived by a society of multiple voices, needs, needs, wants and virtues. Then, as a case study, a workshop is reported at the Centro Carioca de Design (CCD), located in the Rio de Janeiro s downtown. The workshop, designed to collectively think about possible futures for the CCD, highlighted disputes and possibilities through consensus and dissent as well as generated the research questions that guided a mapping of cultural spaces and a synthesis of interviews in the city of Toronto (Canada). From this, the research ends with the interlacing of the two experiences, focusing on participation, placemaking and relationship with the territory. Thus, it was possible to produce a framework of directions to be considered in future strategies aimed at strengthening the relationship of CCD with its territory. At the same time, it was possible to extract some guidelines for participatory and collaborative processes in CCD that promote living cultural practices in its surroundings. Finally, as a proposition, the research concludes that the CCD can become a territory articulation platform through design and tools, creating a favorable environment to discussions, reflections and strategies for the integration of cultural spaces, community, university and partnerships. This research received support from the Government of Canada.