Design estratégico para a mobilidade urbana sustentável por bicicleta em Porto Alegre

Abstract

This study starts from the premise that design can incorporate sustainable initiatives to collaborate with social innovations, and due to its insertion in such research, will reflect the issue of urban mobility in the city of Porto Alegre. By focusing on the Strategic Design and its contributions to organizations that work in the field of human-powered sustainable transport, this research has the object of study urban initiatives of horizontal organizations - associations and authorial groups - to the city previously mentioned. Thus, the theoretical framework is outlined within the scope of the Strategic Design from the perspective of Social and Cultural Innovation. This research has qualitative character, was developed from an exploratory approach and its main goal was to understand the actions and practices related to horizontal organizations that disseminate the culture of sustainable urban mobility in Porto Alegre by cycling and the resignification of the use of bikes within its central urban area. The Strategic Design is treated here as the main bias that will lead to fundamental reflections on contemporary society with regard to the culture of sustainability. For this, semi-structured interviews are developed allowing through the interpretation of speeches of respondents, the creation of future scenarios for the strategic actions of organizations from 10 to 20 years.