Design of Didactic Material: a multidisciplinary experience.

2011
  • Congresso
MX Design Conference 2011: Diseño sin fronteras
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Design in Education is the object of in-depth study and it has opened many doors for action by the designer, rea$rming the interdisciplinary vocation of this area of knowledge. This topic is one of the main objects of study at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Design/Education – LIDE, in operation since 1997, within the scope of the Graduate Studies Program in Design at DAD/PUC-Rio. Starting from the principle that knowledge is constructed through social relations, the intention is to also provide a space for interaction between professionals from various areas, providing those subjects involved the chance to develop their creative potential through human relations with theoretical and technical procedures. This paper will present a proposal for a 360 (three hundred and sixty hour) Specialization Course entitled ‘Design of Didactic Material: a multidisciplinary experience’, aimed at o#ering teachers, pedagogues, designers, educational psychologists, managers of education policy and others interested in the theme the chance to work with diverse methods and techniques to elaborate didactic materials from a Design perspective. The course stems from experience accumulated over many years of work with municipal schools of Rio de Janeiro, which resulted in several objects designed as support for didactic activities developed by teachers and students of Planning, Projects and Development courses o#ered by DAD/PUC-Rio. Created in LIDE as a result of experiences related to Design in Education, ‘Design in Situations of Teaching-Learning’ is a line of research preferably inserted in the academic “eld and that agglutinates works where there is designer participation in projects geared towards Education at any level – Nursery,
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