Fotografia e design social: proposta de interação entre os projetos fotografia tátil e varal

Abstract

This document presents the author's Course Completion Work, which aims to study the relationship between photography and social design, in order to propose the interaction between the Varal - UFC Social Design Laboratory (Varal - Laboratório de Design Social da UFC) and Tactile Photography as a tool for social inclusion of blind people (Fotografia Tátil como ferramenta de inclusão social de pessoas cegas) projects, thus contributing to practices related to photography in the two extension actions. Initially, a bibliographic review was carried out (Galvan and Galvan, 2017) on the concepts and ideas connected to photography and social design. The methods of descriptive qualitative research (Godoy, 1995) and case study (Yin, 2001) were also used. In the latter, actions of the UFC design course were analyzed: Tactile Photography (Fotografia Tátil) and the Moita Redonda Project, developed by Varal in co-creation with the community that gives the project its name. This study revealed the different ways of relating photography and social design, which served as a basis for the development of a strategic social design device that combines characteristics of both projects and exemplifies the possibility of interaction between them: the accessible book “Moita Redonda: ornamentações no barro” (Moita Redonda: ornamentations in clay) and its complementary material with tactile pieces. The project, developed in co-creation with other parties, explores cultural information from the artisan community and addresses three-dimensional issues of images, with a focus on accessibility for people with visual impairments. In addition, it was developed based on methods used by Varal and Tactile Photography, which culminated in a product that successfully combined the characteristics of both actions.