Prof. Beany Monteiro

Nationality
Brazil
Programme
SMART LOIRE VALLEY PROGRAMME
Scientific Field
Period
April, 2018 - September, 2018
Award
LE STUDIUM Guest Researcher

From

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - BR

In residence at

ESAD/ECOLAB (Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design) - FR

Host scientist

Dr Ludovic Duhem

PROJECT

Design and Social Innovation : research on the interactions between social actors and objects designed in emancipator process to generate autonomous knowledge in Design

Traditionally Design research begins with a double movement: in one movement, there is the theoretical knowledge to enlarge and consolidate our professional working practice, and in the other movement, there is the research through design from a practical intervention, which is, in turn, reinterpreted in the Design theoretical knowledge field. These two movements, reciprocal and asymmetric, lead us to reflect about our vocation and talents, concerning ourselves as designers and our activities in contemporary Design. In this way, a new research quality through design should be considered: one that predicts the construction of autonomous knowledge in relation to the traditional aforementioned movements. On the other hand, dealing with Design practice brings us to face the question of the planet’s sustainability. Considering most products nowadays are not ecologically sustainable, we need to understand how product design may contribute to this issue. Since knowledge is materialized in products, we can magnify and value the qualities of such products towards the results we expect with our projects. Designers must create a bridge between the external and internal conditions that enable change through local experiences, presenting innovative knowledge and possibilities. That process has important implications for Design. In this logic, Design must create “networks” with meaning in people’s relations, aiming at increasing these relations quality, and change the focus from product to the results in which this product is inserted. Then designers’ role is changed and enlarged environmental, social and intellectually. This research has as its main objective to understand how Design can produce social and ecological knowledge by means of local projects.

Publications

Final reports

Beany Monteiro
Ludovic Duhem
Jacqueline Febvre
Aurélien Montagu
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This article presents a report of the postdoctoral research entitled “Teach-ing, research and university extension from a perspective of Design for social innovation”, conducted at the ÉCOLAB/ÉSAD, Le Studium Loire Valley, Institute for Advanced Studies, in Orléans, France, between April and September 2018. The report considers the experiences shared throughout the program, the updated literature review and an account of my experience as a professor and researcher at the Graduate Program in Design of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, School of Fine Arts, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil