Aproximações entre marcenaria artesanal e Design: registros do saber e do fazer

Abstract

This work is about artisanal woodworking and its resemblances with design. Its objective is to document the knowing and the doing of the activity, based on the life stories of carpenters from Fortaleza, to highlight the approximations between artisanal woodworking and Design. It is characterized as bibliographic and field research, exploratory and descriptive research, and qualitative research. The methodological approach utilized is based on the ethnographic method and presents development according to the stages of exploration, decision, and discovery, adding the stage of results presentation. Makes use of participant observation and unstructured interview procedures to obtain information. For the data analysis, it’s applied the method of content analysis, consisting of analysis, material exploration, and result treatment. In the theoretical reference, it maps the historical path of artisanal woodworking, bringing characteristics and artifacts that ground the know-how of the activity, in addition to arguing the relation between design woodworking and the appreciation of artisanal knowledge through design. As obtained results, there are four life stories of the carpentry of Fortaleza, a summary of the main tools and main processes in the exercise of the artisanal labor with wood, and a discussion about the points of contact between woodwork workshop and design, based on the comments of professionals that function directly in the relation design-woodwork.