O design estratégico como articulador das formas de apropriação da cultura mangá no Brasil

Abstract

This study is a research about the appropriation of manga culture through strategic design. It set out to understand the strategic design, metadesign and manga culture, as well as the pontencial of methodology of strategic design. For the development of contextual research was chosen as a bottom line, an organization that had in its structure a design department and a product whose inspiration for its creation was the manga. Therefore, elected Maurício de Sousa Productions (MSP), the magazine Young Monica's Gang (YMG) and its products for analysis. After this analysis we sought to understand through in-depth interviews, as the manga reader with the manga culture and appropriated it, as investigated through focus groups as the nikkei, and Japanese descendants living in Brazil, incorporated Brazilian culture. In the context of design research has developed a design studio, in which techniques and tools utilized as the sensitization, the mood board, and the scenarios to developing concept for a project of strategic design. By combining contextual and projectual design research, had the purpose is to strengthen the relationship Product-Service-System (PSS), and explore manga culture values beyond its visuality, such as collectivization, respect and others.