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Umbrella research projects
They aim to structure the production and dissemination of the technical-scientific knowledge through the integration of research, teaching, extension, social insertion, orientation, among others, activities. They must impact the students’ final year projects and are a guide for activities with the productive, public, and social sectors, contributing with the technology exchange. The projects are:
(1) IRIS 2 - The image and the tools for the conception and development of instruments in the field of design, coordinated by professor João Eduardo Chagas Sobral, aims to develop research about the image as a symbolic system, and the tools for the conception and development of instruments in the field of design. Also, it has the objectives of potentializing theoretical and practical research about the material and manufacturing culture, of articulating activities along with research partners and of progressing, in terms of interdisciplinary, graduation, post-graduation and the productive sector. It is the continuation of the Iris 1 project, “The photographic image and the tools for the conception and development of projects of tridimensional instruments”, that aimed to study the relationship between the photographic image and the conception and development of tridimensional objects.
(2) RE-CRIAR - The Design Creative Dimensions for Sustainability, coordinated by professor Anna Luiza Moraes de Sá Cavalcanti, intends to investigate the influence of the design in sustainability and to study the relevant points to the development of sustainable products and services in all value chain. The reflections generated by the theoretical/practical research aim direct applications in projects of products and services that are converted to society through partnerships with the productive sector, the academy, and the community. It is the continuation of the RE-USE project, “Investigation about the reutilization of industrial waste in the region of Joinville: a design perspective based on upcycling approach”, that had the objective to investigate the disposal of solid industrial waste possible to be reused in the region of Joinville, trying to comprehend how this practice happens in some companies.
(3) SIMBOL 2 – The Design and its Borders in the Social Institution of Symbolic Culture, coordinated by professor Elenir Carmen Morgenstern, aims to develop investigations about design based on cultural anthropology, contemplating the design and its borders in the social institution of symbolic culture. It is a theoretical and practical research that **s the design not only materially speaking, but also as a social practice, considering the limits and hybridisms of other fields. It is a continuation of SIMBOL project, “The design and the social institution of material and symbolic culture”, that had the objective to analyze practices of the field of design through the perspective of the cultural anthropology, studying them not only materially (in terms of technique or aesthetics), but also as a social practice that consider the symbolic universe of its historical context.
(4) ETHOS - Design and Use Relationships, coordinated by professor Marli Teresinha Everling, aims to develop activities guided to the design (participation culture, new design, protagonism, sustainability) and to the use relationships (usability, use experience, user’s behavior, empathy, prescriptive and real use, among others). It is a continuation of URBE Project, “The use relationships and the urban context as a support to the prospective design of products and services in the city of Joinville”, that had the objective to investigate the user’s behavior and its activities in the urban landscape as a resource to produce support information to the prospective design of products and services.
(5) DESUS - Studies and Actions Guided to Design, Sustainability and Social Innovation, coordinated by professor Adriane Shibata Santos, aims to promote actions related to teaching, research and extension in design considering the sustainability, its dimensions, and its social innovation. The areas of influence primarily contemplate design and urban context, product-service systems, materials, and innovation in design. It is a continuation of the D4SMOB project, “Contributions from the design to the sustainable development of the cities: a case study in Joinville”. The investigation focused on the concept of intelligent and sustainable cities, considering first the urban context of Joinville, and the relationship between the design and the social reality of Joinville.
(6) DSERV - Service Design and Relationship with Clients, coordinated by professor Victor Rafael Laurenciano Aguiar, has the objectives to investigate the field of service design and to comprehend the relationship between the organizations with their clients. The proposal is a continuation of the project “Design as a tool of strategic innovation in industries of transformation of Joinville”, that aimed, through a survey with a sample of companies, to understand the conception of design, as well as innovation, and, finally, to investigate strategic innovation actions.
(7) IN-SOCI@L - Technology to Innovation and Social Impact Businesses, coordinated by professor Luiz Melo Romão, discusses the role of design in the process of social transformation and in the reinforcement of social entrepreneurship. It has the objectives to investigate and elaborate innovative tools and practices to stimulate and support the development of solutions to social problems, to promote the creation of businesses through products, processes or sustainable and creative services that cause social and environmental impact and to elaborate ways to measure the social impact provoked by the evolution of the program students’ proposals.
(8) GBRAND - Investigation of Brand Management and Product Design, coordinated by professor Elcio Ribeiro da Silva, has the following objectives: to distinguish the principles of contemporaneous design, considering aspects of consumer’s interaction and behavior stimulated by the urban and technological evolution; to identify the applications of contemporaneous design in the construction of brands according to design in urban, market and behavior contexts; to comprehend the transformation and the influence of material culture, its values and its symbolic and aesthetic issues; to measure the possible impacts of brand communication in the market and society, when it comes to actions and repercussions of the design in practices of production, management, and behavior to be more conscious about sustainable values in the consumption.
(9) PRISMA - Design and Materials: New Perspectives to Technological Production and Sustainability, coordinated by professor Danilo Corrêa Silva. The main objective of this project is to promote investigations and developments on technology and academy related to new materials and its applications in product design. For that matter, it foments the development and application of new materials derived from technological innovation processes, as well as meets the local demands toward the reuse of waste from the agroindustrial production of Joinville and region. The main repercussions of the project are the articulation of knowledges and activities between the academic context, the productive environment, and the community in general, and the social appropriation of products with innovative and sustainable characteristics.
(10) VALORIZA - Appreciation and reduction of waste aiming to the environmental, economic, and social sustainability, coordinated by professor Noeli Sellin. The project has the following objectives: to add value to waste from different processes and systems through strategies and technologies that promote the reuse, the repair, the remanufacture, and the recycling; to develop/improve systems, products, processes, and services based on circular economy, aiming to the environmental, economic, and social sustainability; to develop strategical and innovative solutions to reduce the environmental impacts caused by consumer goods, services, systems, and processes, in pre-production, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal/recycling stages, applying the life-cycle analysis (LCA) as a design tool toward sustainability and strategic design.