Restrição social no ser diferente: a deficiência sob a perspectiva do design na busca por alteridade

Abstract

This research analyzes disability, through a Design perspective, as well as the relationships that result in situations of social restriction, in order to propose a project within the context developed. At this point, it is necessary to study and analyze these factors, since in the positioning of contemporary society, the community of people with disabilities runs through a long debate regarding definitions that permeate disability itself, which involve biomedical and social contexts. In spite of this, social contexts still present a little sensitive picture to the understanding of disabilities as difference. We sought to analyze the technological production that seeks to be an aid on circumstances of disability. As a complement to these studies, there was a research regarding facts around the formation of identity cultures between people with disabilities, therefore it was important to address this research within the design discourse, in order to generate paradigms that can contribute to the reflection of the problem. Regarding a possible way of collaborating with the change of this situation, it was developed an interaction design project combined with principles of exhibition design. These processes culminate in the exhibition called "What you don’t think", in which it has the concept and objective of transmitting to its visitors values o f otherness, as well as the complete understanding and respect of disability as difference. The entire project was conceived in four exhibition modules, among them are experiences with testimonials of people with disabilities that portray their possibilities and achievements and also a multisensory installation. This research project was supported by the Accessibility Secretariat of the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), from the Instituto Cearense de Educação Surda (ICES), Digital Workshop from the Department of Architecture and Urbanism as well as extension projects like Tactile Photography and Computational Design.