Design, cidade e sociabilidades:estratégias para produzir outros sentidos do comum

Abstract

This paper describes a curious look at the social life that happens in the city through our experiences of collective exchange. Immersed in the era of biopolitical hegemony, a global configuration that seeks to reach social life as a whole through consumption, this research-action seeks to mobilize debates about the design that acts in urban dynamics, while proposing strategies to produce other senses of the common. Inserted in the pandemic context in which sociabilities are directly compromised, restricted and contaminated, the project outlines alternative strategies to take place in the reclusive urban environment addressing the collective and affective imaginary. Using database technology, a series of experimental interventions were produced to explore the current pandemic daily life of COVID-19 - a highly infectious disease that requires social distancing and the use of face masks as the main measure against dissemination. As a design strategy, the project elicits and collects diverse looks and expressions with virtual invitations, and conceives, mixes and assembles audiovisual, photographic and textual narratives as a design strategy to virtualize the invisible cities we carry within us. It is a project that feeds back and seeks to nurture networked subjectivities in the midst of social, political, and health chaos.