SCENARIO OF TEACHING MATERIALS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN DESIGN COURSES IN BRAZIL AND ITALY: guidelines and strategies.
Material experience, Material design education. Industrial Design, sustainability
Design's relationship with materials has been remodeled due to several issues related to the impacts of this area on a global scale. The constant technological development, the unsustainable relationship with nature and negative impacts on society and the environment, generate demands for new design practices. The design area is very comprehensive, and the focus of this work is the approach with materials, since we are surrounded by artifacts, and these require raw material for projects and “drawings” to materialize. This thesis aims to address the relationship between Higher Education Institutions in Design and the process of selecting materials with a focus on sustainability. This is because this activity requires decision-making influenced by different disciplines and tangible and intangible factors; in addition to being a decisive step for the impacts on the environment and user experiences. For this, contemporary perspectives on the teaching of materials will be addressed, illustrating relevant and crucial 'requirements' for this stage, such as the complementarity between the tangible and intangible aspects inherent and projected to the material. The research will also collect guidelines and strategies used in Design HEIs in Brazil and Italy, aiming at the opportunity that the intercultural study favors the exchange of action perspectives. With this, the research also aims to collect specialists' considerations about the guidelines and strategies collected and those actually used; in addition to his considerations about the current and future context of teaching materials.