ABSTRACT: The transition to a sustainable society requires a long and complex process of collective learning. The process in each social actor requires practices with rules, assumes new responsibilities and acquires relatively new capacities. This article involves the education / training of a particular sector that will be responsible for developing products to the Designer. The key question raised by designers educators and explored in this article is: what must be changed in the designer& (...)

ABSTRACT: Training is a phase of extreme importance in initial training and later in continuous training in the labor market. Due to the scope of ICTs and because they require more and more, together with the application of learning theories, new possibilities of communication, the designer of learning teaching modules assumes more and more prominence in the process. KEYWORDS: teaching learning modules; ELearning; BLearning; Design Education. (...)

ABSTRACT: In the present article, we intend to understand, through the reading of Elliot Eisner work, the dimensions that are present in the process of artistic creation and to what extent they can or should contribute to the improvement of learning in the arts. In order to understand artistic learning, one should bear in mind the way one learns to create artistic forms, to see visual forms in art (and also in nature) and to know the aspects that contribute to the understanding of art. KEYWORDS: Elliot Eisner; Process of artistic creation; Artistic learning. (...)

ABSTRACT: This article establishes a reflexive qualitative analysis mainly based on the general and specific legislation related to the teaching of Design in higher education in Portugal. It also uses studies on quantitative data that are fundamental to understand the present day scenario, such as the number of registered students, percentage of new design courses, number of licensed students in the last ten years, among other data. The Bologna Process implements a new paradigm in the Portuguese higher education system: The change from a teaching system based on knowledge transmission to (...)

ABSTRACT: Through art events, man leaves a mark in the world as a form of forgetting  his mortal condition. These are objects that testify to this day, moments of struggle between man and his own existence. In today& (...)

ABSTRACT: This article paints a picture of Programs in Design existing in Brazil, highlighting the first course and all others who now contribute to the training of researchers and teachers.   KEYWORDS: History, Design in Brazil; Education. (...)

ABSTRACT: This work proposes a reflection about the possibilities to integrate the most traditional artistic techniques to the contemporary technology in education and in the production of visual arts. Discusses the teaching of Visual Arts related to the new technological possibilities and the visual universe of the everyday life. The importance of renewing the proposals of teaching, valuing the various forms of artistic expression. Prepare students for the reading, reception and production of art and communication. The discussion pervades the importance to appropriate of the new contemporary (...)

ABSTRACT: Over the years, design has undergone transformations that have altered their speech and initial goal, which to some extent, reflects its ripening and its social recognition, especially when no longer a vanguard, or an alternative project, and become absorbed by enterprises and society, through the consolidation of a market design. And despite appearing to a certain distance, skeptical thinking and design have close relationship. This article aims to confront the design and some their perspectives with the skeptical thought, in order to constitute a relationship between the design (...)

ABSTRACT: In the present article we intend, after a brief discussion on the implementation of Bologna Process in European Union countries, to understand at what stage is the adequacy of Visual Arts courses, and to what extent the guidelines of various conferences of ministers responsible for higher education, have been embraced to define degrees structure, cycles duration, the assurance of system& (...)

ABSTRACT: This paper presents the theoretical reasons that justify the practice of free artistic expression in working with adolescents and adults. There is also an indication of procedures and activities whose purpose is the development of graphic and plastic expression, as an exercise of personal manifestation in the social context. Artistic expression is the field of reflexive interaction between the subject and expressive and his inner universe presents itself as a need and motivation for the development of activities that also require planning and organization. Therefore, besides its (...)

ABSTRACT: The present study will seek to understand how the higher education institutions account for the overall workload of the student (contact hours and hours of autonomous work) per course unit, taking into account the type of education (theoretical, theoretical and practical, practical, project, ...). For the purposes of this study were selected image arts courses, fashion design, textile and interior design and equipment of the School of Applied Arts, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (Portugal), courses in communication design, design fashion and interior design at the Faculty of (...)

ABSTRACT: The way how designers respond to external demands in process project design results from an interpretation of variables, most of them originated from the word. Thus, the word is essential in different stages of the process - that culminates in objects – because each one of these stages, inextricably, is presented by words. With grounding in linguistic principles, this study seeks to establish an analysis of the construction of images and the implications of perception, linguistic repertoire and culture in design process, highlighting the role of the word, especially at the (...)

ABSTRACT: This paper upholds the view that Design belongs to our epoch’s cultural complex through three distinct vectors: the cultures directed to the human needs to “Know”, to “Make” and to “Sense”. Design teaching, seen as an educational process in the richest sense of the word, must be adequate to the goal to be attained, that is, the full development of human values.  The three cultural vectors referred encompass the approaches to the reality and the social and historic dynamics involved in the complex and heuristic exercise of Design, which (...)

ABSTRACT: In 1833, was established in Porto, the Museu de Pinturas e Estampas, and João Baptista Ribeiro, prominent figure at the time (Viana, 1991), assigned the function of organizing the respective museum. In implementing its tasks, Baptista Ribeiro, projects a Casa d’estudo, promoting learning in the field of fine arts. In Portugal, looking up at that time, there was an attempt to organize the system of art teaching, what indeed happens with the foundation of the Academies of Fine Arts, in 1836. In that sense, the project of Baptista Ribeiro appears in an emergent context. In (...)

ABSTRACT: Today, the programming languages are used by people with background from areas increasingly distinct and different from the usual, having come to the artistic field. The Processing language, which has a visual nature allowing the development of applications/ performances with visual elements and sounds, was specially designed to be used for artists. Nevertheless, the preparation prior and the sensitivity of the target audience of this language has, while apprentices, is quite diferent from the preparation of the programming language standard learners. For this reason, it is proposed (...)

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to analyze the distribution of ECTS in scientific fields, the time they represent in each of the courses and what is the relationship between contact hours and hours of autonomous work of design courses, studants in the superior School of Applied Arts from the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (Portugal) and the Faculty of Design of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and fine arts courses at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (Portugal) and the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Italy). In this work, we analyzed the courses of Arts Image Design (...)

ABSTRACT: In this article, we will try to systematize some aspects in order to improve visual arts teachers performance, identified from the bibliography of the study developed about teaching methodologies. . Through our teaching experience, we realize that methodology or methodologies adopted must be understood in a flexible way adjusted, as much as possible, to student’s contexts and according with programs objectives. From the aspects we consider relevant in the teaching/learning process, in this article we underline the relationship of trust that must be established between (...)

ABSTRACT: An evolution of the genesis of Cubism and geometric art in general, based on the precedents and trends that emerged mainly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and whose fundamentals, conceptual, projective and aesthetic have been resurfacing is built around a century later, in different areas of design, from graphics, home design, and even the design of the car. Rebuilding aims to reflect this phenomenon and provide a nutrient related to the sensitivity of the new contemporary design, not only young people but also designers of large international firms from (...)

ABSTRACT: In this article we criticize an idea that has become widespread and dominant : the idea that the industrial design would be the strategy of rationalizing the factory system, as characterized by Tomás Maldonado among others. It is therefore fundamental to review the  framework for analysis of the author, and not just point to other strategies. This conceptual revision is relevant from a practical and theoretical perspective. Practical, because it helps to identify relevant problems for design beyond those defined by factory’s "project culture”. (...)

ABSTRACT: The legacy of the Bauhaus school of design with methods and ideals in schools around the world today still widely discutido.Com bases, foundations and pedagogy, it is possible to identify influences on design education and its contemporary mtodologia teaching, has become the main paradigm for teaching design in the twentieth century. This work presents methods of teaching the various stages of the life of the Bauhaus, relating them to the design of the XXI   KEYWORDS: Design; Bauhaus; Art and Technology; Pedagogy. (...)

ABSTRACT: Although the concept of functionalism is in the design practice origins and in the emblematic relationship form / function or the motto "design is about solving problems" emerging especially with the mechanization of production and the industry for the mass product, if we go back in time we may find more interesting questions to rethink, and values or projective positions that may be now closer to our contribution to the world we live in - than those who remained afloat within the passage of time. Because our relationship with nature, truth, usefulness, the beautiful (...)

ABSTRACT: This study aims to collect information about political action plans towards design during the government of presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The participation of Democratic State in the political actions which stimulate design as a contribution to the economic improvement of the country is in a way a bit modest if compared to the high industrial demand that is common of a country in development. It is noticeable that the government doesn’t promote great projects which are relevant to the industry segment such as the development of (...)

ABSTRACT: This paper aimed to investigate the relationship between design, communication and the nostalgic consumption on the college student’s life in the west of Santa Catarina. A theoretical that goes through different knowledge like Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology and areas of Communication, like Marketing, Fashion, Behavior, Entertainment and Design was used during its development. Understanding about all these fields and through a focus group research, it was possible to comprehend the nostalgic consumer behavior in the analyzed university, achieving the proposed (...)

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to present a reflection about the importance of collaborative work between students from different cultures, through a design thinking workshop, with resource to virtual technologies. The main purpose of this project, is to develop the design thinking process, in a small group scenario, in order to demonstrate how different perspectives leads to more creative solutions, promoting interdisciplinary work in a presential way or through virtual platforms. Design Thinking is a flexible methodology, which can be used in any work field, since it as valuable (...)

ABSTRACT: This article seeks to understand how the materialization of thinking in the Sketchbook contributes to the storage of ideas, experimentation and hypothesis formulation in the development of a collection. For that, the qualitative and applied, descriptive and exploratory research, analyzes the paths of creation of the Fantastic Garden´s series. It was observed that the Creative Notebook, a process document and also a cognitive artifact, exercises autonomy, freedom of expression and self-criticism, making agents aware of their own creative paths, while facilitating the linking of (...)

ABSTRACT: Human Beings establish personal relationships with Colour. However, most of our reactions are still unknown. Recently there has been research which identifies the areas of the brain that are activated during the chromatic phenomenon, as well as we can measure the behavior of humans with regard to colour issues. The visible brain consists of multiple functionally specialized areas that receive their input largely from two areas of the brain known as V1 and the area around it known as V2. These are currently the best mapped visual areas, but they are not the only ones. Through these (...)

ABSTRACT: This article expands and develops a theme, which has been explored in the doctoral research in the area of design carried out by the author [1]. Thinking about the design of products for a market was the dominant paradigm of the modern society, remaining relatively stable since the Industrial Revolution until the mid-20th century.  However, the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial context meant to satisfy new needs and consequently changes in design perspective – that shifted the focus from product centered to user centered throughout the 20th century. Today (...)