Jogos: viabilizando engajamento e facilitando diálogos em processos de codesign

Abstract

This paper discusses how design games can facilitate research on codesign processes based on an experience in which the author describes herself as a researcher and participant in an international cooperation project carried out in 2015. At first, a partnership between two research laboratories, the Center for Codesign Research (CODE, Denmark) and the Design Anthropology Laboratory (LaDA, Brazil), is outlined, to report how this approach enabled six codesing experiments in three libraries (State Park Library, Library of the Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro and Prainha Library). In this sense, four of the mentioned experiments used design games in their research contexts, which became the object of study of this dissertation. Thus, from a review of the characteristics of four design games previously elaborated in Denmark, as well as through the documentary analysis and the rematerialization of the Brazilian codesign experiments, it is observed how the games designed in these processes also acted as collaboration platforms. In this context, the present research not only demonstrates how games can be used as a means to enable engagement and facilitate dialogues in codesign processes, but also presents parameters that can be used as starting point in the elaboration of design games in collaborative processes.