design and gender workshop

05 OCTOBER 2024 I ROOM 4.20

DESIGN AND GENDER Workshop EXCLUSIVE FOR FBAUL STUDENTS

05 OCTOBER 2024 > 10H00 I room 4.20

Total of hours: 8h

25 vacancies

Initiative: Departamento de Design de Equipamento – FBA-ULisboa

Design, as a knowledge system, was created based on a current paradigm that, despite its apparent neutrality, privileged an exclusionary system of values, creating ethnocentric, hegemonic and patriarchal world configurations. This course aims, based on debates on gender issues and feminist theories, to expose such narratives that privilege the symbolic systems of patriarchy in the production of contemporary material culture and to propose methodological alternatives to this context.

Program

Part 1: How do gender and design meet?

Within a historical approach, concepts, authors and strategies are presented. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, they constituted the paradigm of neutral design, both in professional practices in the field and in the scope of research. Next, we present the criticism, showing authors who expose counter-hegemonic narratives about design and gender, exposing the ills and consequences of such a process of design neutrality, questioning erasures and obliterations.

Design, as a field that configures the material dimension of the world, along with other fields such as art, architecture and fashion, can be reconstituted using technologies that lead to new gender representations. In this sense, the morning class presents the themes of masculinities, intersectionality, relating them to issues of decoloniality. The representation form will be based on feminist theories.

Part 2: Reconfiguring design methodologies in light of gender and power studies

Situated cases of reconfiguration of design methods and techniques will be presented in light of the theories covered in the course. The proposal is to exemplify and encourage participants to rethink their theoretical and methodological approaches to design. Based on the proposals for reconfiguring methods proposed by the participants, we will debate how gender issues, in our context of climate change, require a critical look at the forms of production of the Anthropocene. A practical activity will be proposed, involving participants in presenting research, teaching, or professional projects guided by gender and intersectional issues. New reflections emerge and leave open paths for other designs in the form of a conclusion to the course.