Banquete metaprojetual: uma experiência de atualização do design como estratégico

Abstract

The design I present in this text was made throughout the path of building the doctoral thesis from the experience of the realization of design as strategic. With this purpose I have projected experiences in which space-time was composed in commensality, as an inventive procedural of the community, to foment further discussions. In the wake of these discussions by the dining table, I tried to create conditions so that every practicing subject could feel-reflet-act for the sake of being a part of the question. In this regard the dining table is understood as an artifact-process bound to the production of knowledge by which the diners make new propositions and questions.Design here is operated by the metaproject by means of artifacts-processes. The artifacts-processes propose interlacings and, for that, they are laid down by the moments of the ecology of becoming, making a connection with our functions-intents from the ‘epoche' and from the proposition. The procedural set up by the artifacts-processes define the metaproject's flux and encourages the continual opening and adaptation of the strategies to what is being lived. The relationship between the metaproject and the strategies tries to foment learning and recursive procedurals and enables the metaproject displacements.This thesis has the intention to tell the cycles of the experiments that occurred with the purpose of living such procedurals. To develop these cycles, it was necessary an interlacing between theory, method, epistemology, ontology, and the experiences found in phenomenology and in its procedural crossings of the path that made possible the practices of feel-reflet-act of our existential modes. The phenomenology means, above all, to re-learn to live the world. It is the philosophy of the incompleteness, of the becoming, of the constant movement, where what is lived manifests itself and is always the starting point to achieving something. These interlaces constitute the metaproject path that we call ‘hodos-meta'. This perspective proposes a methodological reversal established as metaproject: to convert ‘meta-hodos' in ‘hodos-meta'. Therefore, the metaproject will not be a path (hodos) prearranged by the goals determined at the starting point. This reverse implies not a method to be applied but something to be experienced and taken as an attitude. In this way the precision of the path is closer to the movements of life, of the becoming. Consequently, stating commensality as a proposition to design I suggest the opening of a kind of receptivity by the means of the experiences promoted by the artifacts-processes. These experiments were proposed to update the everyday life potentialities into something that may become, maybe even into feel-reflet-act, regarding our existencial modes. With these experiments we open the possibility to a new mode which may be constituted of ideas, of things, objects or even feelings. It is an opening for speculation which emphasizes the interlacings between phenomenology and the Whitehedian processuality. This moment that I call speculative becoming has profited from the interlacing between ‘epoche' and the proposition. It has formed a path to the feel-reflet-act of design as a strategy to speculate about our responsibilities and choices in our modes of existence, considering the dark situation of the world today. And by doing that taking these transformations to the worlds where our imagination allows us to flourish.