2021
Master Thesis @ UNISINOS
Master Thesis @ UNISINOS
How can the dimension of touch in experimentation provide spaces for hesitation in design? This research sought to investigate this relationship based on a participatory practice of experimental prototyping that uses embroidery to generate a careful and sensitive means of dialogue.
The research advances in the understanding of an experimental posture based on artistic experimentation and its results highlight a design performance more engaged with uncertainties, care, and subjectivities.
• design research • experimentation • touch • care • crafts
Questions:
When we talk about experimentation in design, we must question close and rigid modes that only aim at evaluating its results ￫ related to the ways of the experiment, typical of the practice of modern science. Considering the uncertain and critical times in which we perceive ourselves as a society, an effort for design practices capable of touching other possible worlds becomes urgent.
Thus, some experimentation readings, which think of it as an experimental practice, favor the emergence of alternatives that propel new ways of being, doing, thinking and feeling. 💖 This includes opening up to other modes of attention related to the condition of hesitate the construction of a common and detached world. In other words, a deceleration is essential to stop general solutions to be implemented before one can have the opportunity to question what is good or urgent.
So, I question the role of an experimental posture intertwined with a dimension of touch. Being touch, a sensorial experience capable of achieving particular knowledge generated in contact. In this experimentation bias, the material aspect of the inventive dynamics of design is valued, which, by means of collective and participatory practices of doing, mediate expectations and worldviews which defies what is established as true.
Process:
An experimental prototyping practice was developed using embroidery materials. 🧶 Embroidery as a way to slow down the pace, proposes an immersion in the present time and reduction of prejudices. The box with materials, or "the box to embroider care" circulated through the hands of 6 participants in social isolation, who met via video to talk about life, their creations and their fears generating a welcoming space. This practice sought to promote a democratic opportunity for sensitive dialogue based on the formation of a community and by paying attention to touch.
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