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Copyright of Arcos: Design, Cultura e Visualidade is the property of Editora da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EdUERJ) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This article is part of a research about cooperative design with sustainable materials. The research on the indigenous design is based on a visit to a village of the huni kuin tribe in the Amazon and analyzes it in terms of Design methods and processes, materials and cooperation. The village is in an isolated place, difficult to reach, and many of their traditional practices have been preserved. What can these ancient practices teach us? What principles are present in their production that are similar to academic ideas about sustainable design? And what challenges do they face nowadays in their material production, with the progressive arrival of industrial goods? The article analyses the processes of pottery, house building and basketry, all traditionally done collectively using only materials and tools from the local forest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature has a humanizing potential which is especially relevant to young readers in the process of forming their subjectivities. Identifying Design as a mediator for reading and a possible ally in the approximation process between the juvenile audience and literature books, this study aims to explore the role of Design in the contemporary-publishing market and in Brazilian public policies aimed at promoting reading. Thus, it presents both quantitative and qualitative analyses of literary books that are part of the biggest Brazilian program for book distribution to school libraries. The categories, organized according to the concepts proposed by Unden, Haslam and Lupton and Phillips, comprise an overview of the relations between textual and visual content in the books for young people and relates the presence of Design elements to the valorization of reader fruition and dialog among the several languages of the book. Research findings indicate that most books do not consider the social role of the young reader and do not explore the possibilities offered by Design. Thus, this research proposes the development of a policy of Design in Reading as a project-oriented activity of interdisciplinary feature, which perceives the reader as both a cultural and social instance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design, as a field with inter-disciplinary vocation, appraises both the existence of knowledge formative units and the assessment of different performance areas. From this perspective, before executing job interventions, a designer should undertake a responsibility higher than merely knowing his specific instruction guidelines, i.e., observe, get acquainted to, and participate of knowledge fields which may be different from his own. However, sometimes market's structure turns a consistent intervention unattainable, i.e., an intervention grounded both on his instruction specific guidelines and on the field's reality, for which his performance is being needed. At other moments, the designer has a limited knowledge of the field in which he will perform the intervention, and this may cause the intervention to be impossible and/or contribute to generate social prejudice. This paper aims to discuss the designer performance in the educational field, analysing its contribution to the development of didactic and para-didactic material related to reading. We emphasize the double role of the designer's skills and information which, sometimes due to an impossibility otherwise to unawareness, may lead him to the generation of social prejudice and to the lack of informative content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]