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- Title
Design para inovação e sustentabilidade: iniciativas de ensino e cocriação com jovens no brasil.
- Authors
Mouchrek, Najla; Krucken, Lia
- Abstract
This paper presents the design and Transformation project developed by the authors with the Centre for Studies, Theory, Research, and Culture in Design at the School of Design at the University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its objectives are: a. map challenges and opportunities in the transition towards sustainability, especially in relation to contemporary youth; b. investigate the potential and applicability of the design as a transforming agent in promoting changes in values, creating new scenarios and sustainable lifestyles. The main results of the research are presented, they reinforces the importance of understanding the values and challenges of youth development, broaden and deepen the concept of sustainability, bringing it closer to the reality of life of the young, invest in the construction of contexts transformation, encourage empowerment and autonomy development, identifying possible approaches to languages and communication and mediation strategies used to facilitate change processes driven by young people themselves.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABLE design; DESIGN; YOUTH development; SUSTAINABLE development; INFORMATION &; communication technologies
- Publication
Actas de Diseño, 2016, Issue 21, p81
- ISSN
1850-2032
- Publication type
Article