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Maria
Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
is a philosopher and an associate
professor of Design at the School
of Architecture and Urbanism, University
of São Paulo. She got her MA
at University of São Paulo,
Philosophy, in Aesthetics, 1975 and
her Ph.D. at the University of São
Paulo, Philosophy, in Aesthetics,
1993. She was a visiting scholar in
postdoctoral programs at the following
universities:University of California,
Los Angeles. School of Public Policy
and Social Research, 1995-96; University
of Campinas, Brazil, Institute of
Philosophy and Human Sciences, 1997;
Nihon University, Tokyo, College of
Design and Arts, 1999; Canadian Center
for Architecture, Montreal, 2001.
She has published many articles in
Brazilian design magazines and international
academic conferences. She is the author
of several books, among them Móvel
Moderno no Brasil, which was sponsored
by FAPESP and a joint publication
of the University of São Paulo
Press and Studio Nobel in São
Paulo. She is a scientific consultant
for Brazilian Research Agencies, such
as FAPESP and CNPq. Currently she
is the co-ordinator of the Workshop
of Social Design at the Institute
of Advanced Studies, at the University
of São Paulo. Dr. Loschiavo
dos Santos current research is about
Discarded Products, Design and Homelessness
in Global Cities and she is deeply
committed to design and social responsibility
issues. She was awarded the First
Prize by the Museu da Casa Brasileira,
for her book Móvel Moderno
no Brasil. She is the screenwriter
of the documentary movie A Margem
da Imagem (On the Fringes of São
Paulo: Homeless) which concentrates
on themes such as social exclusion,
unemployment, alcoholism, insanity,
religiousness, contemporary public
spaces, urban degradation, identity
and citizenship. The film was officially
selected for the São Paulo
Short Film Festival 2002. The film
was awarded the "Best documentary"
film at the Gramado Film Festival,
2003. |
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0479 - UNDERGRADUATE COURSE |
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| DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY |
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| Professor: Dra. Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos |
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| Teaching Assistant: |
• Luciana Melchert (2005) |
• Ana Beatriz Simon Factum (2006*)
*Second semester 2006 |
| • Tatiana Sakurai (2008) |
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| Monday: 2 p.m. - 6 p. m. |
About the course
This class will focus on providing
knowledge on design for sustainability
taking into consideration the environmental,
social and economic impact of products,
processes and systems.
The topic of design for sustainability
is of extraordinary importance in
the contemporary agenda of both the
design studies and research as well
as of the industrial design culture.
It is a decisive design practice for
the development of new products. In
this context it is relevant to introduce
the students systematically to the
so called clean products methodologies.
According to Manzini and Vezzoli,
awareness about environmental problems
in the design realm has transformed
the nature of variables: clean technologies
stress on questions at the technological
realm and gradually enlarge the role
of social and cultural aspects. "Indeed,
the development of clean products
may require clean technologies, but
certainly it requires a new capacity
of design. In this framework, the
role of industrial design could be
summarized as the activity that, is
linking the technically possible with
the ecologically necessary, and is
creating new proposals that are socially
and culturally enjoyable".
Objectives:
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Introduce
the students to the requirements
of sustainable products: ecological
thinking and design |
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Investigate
the possibilities and limits
of the integration of sustainable
development in product design |
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Stimulate
new manners/ways of design taking
into consideration the discarded
product and its re-use within
the urban environment |
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Understand
the concept of sustainable design
and its social interface |
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Understand
the production of urban solid
waste and recognize the great
value that recyclable material
has for collectors cooperatives
as the main agents in the management
of solid waste |
Attendance:
This class will be structured to accommodate
the creative process of students.
Scheduled class time provides the
space for critique as well as for
help with technical problems in assignments
that students might face. The course
will provide an opportunity to have
one-to-one discussions of the ongoing
projects. |
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AUP
5864 – GRADUATE COURSE
QUESTIONING DESIGN
Professor: Dra. Maria Cecília
Loschiavo dos Santos
Second semester 2006
Monday: 8.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.
m.
About the course
In my opinion, students can benefit
tremendously from this interdisciplinary
perspective, especially in public
universities with a great concentration
of faculty of a high level in almost
all fields. I believe that students
have to be aware of an interdisciplinary
and critical perspective of their
major. Many times they lack this critical
perspective, which encouraged me to
develop a graduate course entitled
"Questioning Design".
The course has been developed around
a number of focal points that break
dominant assumptions and practices
in design. It aims to encourage rethinking
design in different ways, from consideration
of the banalization of the very word
'design', the fetishism of designed
objects, to the creative transformation
of mass-produced objects by the homeless.
Looking at homelessness issues led
me specifically to consider the social
responsibility of designers and architects,
to redefine the role of design for
social needs, and of design for sustainability.
This approach led the students to
ethical and political considerations
in their work. In turn, the course
points to a wider situation: resituating
the theory and practice of design
education within cultural politics,
while going beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Grounding design theory and practice
within cultural politics illuminates
the connections between design and
social forces. In this way, political
and cultural issues frequently excluded
from design became crucial to students'
master or doctoral theses. |
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AUP
CAC- 5245 - GRADUATE COURSE
The edges between design and set design:
approaching topics of contemporary
design
Professor: Dra. Maria Cecília Loschiavo
dos Santos
Dr. Fausto Viana
Second semester 2006
Tuesday: 1.30 p.m. - 4.30 p. m.
About the course
The main purpose of the course "The
edges between design and set design:
approaching topics of contemporary
design", (CAC-5245) - taught by Prof.
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo and Prof.
Fausto Viana is to provoke thought
on the importance and the role of
design in the modern world. Design
not only as means of impact on everyday
life-relation between man, systems
and communication but also on the
b presence of design in societies'
cultural life.
It is most important for us in this
course that the professionals involved
in this class - and they are design
and set design graduates, as well
as architecture students - may benefit
from everyday thought on design. Design
and set design have reached a so sophisticated
and complex elaboration that it is
most important that research in those
fields is stimulated - in both theoretical
and practical ways. By identifying
common characteristics to the two
fields, it will be easier to stimulate
the discovery of new frontiers.
Objectives
Moreover, the course highly focus
on the re-use of discarded material.
The so called dumpster is the main
basis of research, involving concepts
of sustainability and the thinking
of how recyclable material can be
applied in the creation of design.
The course has also a deep worry about
social inclusion, and that is the
reason why students have been taken
- and are very much involved in their
products- to COOPAMARE, an organization
that recycles lots of materials that
their members pick up in the streets
of São Paulo. These cardboard
collectors have to be involved socially
immediately, for they are creating
an independent parallel society that
leads to social exclusion.
The main points to be discussed in
class are:
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The
idea of design |
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Relations
between art and technology |
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The
social culture of design |
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Basic
questions concerning design
and its social value and responsibility |
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The
discarded industrial products |
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Solid
urban waste and the CATADORES
DE RECICLÁVEIS |
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The
theatrical building and its
evolution |
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The
design of the contemporary scene |
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The
creation of sets and costumes
using recycled material |
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Architecture
and scenography: turning points. |
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The
experience of Brazilian designers
using recyclables. |
Attendance:
This class will be structured to accommodate
the creative process of students.
Scheduled class time provides the
space for critique as well as for
help with technical problems in assignments
that students might face. The course
will provide an opportunity to have
one-to-one discussions of the ongoing
projects. |
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