Aplicação do Design Scienc Research para preenchimento de vazios institucionais que afetam meninas e mulheres (cis e trans), em situação de vulnerabilidade socioambiental, moradoras de um bairro do município de Pelotas no RS

Abstract

This study is developed with the goal of applying the Design Science Research methodology, aimed at designing artifacts in order to solve socio-environmental problems and aiming to have a positive impact on filling the needs characteristic of institutional voids of girls and women (cis and trans) in situations of socio environmental vulnerability, residents of the Navegantes neighborhood, in the municipality of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul (RS). This research is qualitative and exploratory in nature. The application of Design Science Research (DSR) was used, divided into five stages for its conduction: Awareness; Suggestion; Development; Assessment; and Conclusion, for the conception and validation of knowledge throughout the work – four of these five stages having been carried out. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews at two different moments and was used together with Bardin's Content Analysis (1977) to characterize the Analysis Unit – Navegantes neighborhood – and the Object of Analysis – a prominent socio environmental problem among the identified institutional voids. Twelve interviews were carried out and as a result it was possible to characterize, through the angle of girls and women (cis and trans) immersed in a situation of socio-environmental vulnerability, what their perceptions about the environment and their interaction with it were, having been identified as the biggest complaint in his speeches the 'Health Issues', then elected as Object of Analysis, Thus, 'Health Issues' that sought to be resolved through the development and design of the artifact. Furthermore, bibliographical material about Social Technology Projects was found to create a table of empirical solutions present in the literature, and enable the analysis of their characteristics as a knowledge base for combining and recombining tools aiming at the conception of something new, that is, the research artifact. In conclusion, we have achieved success in designing the artifact to solve the socio-environmental problem of the real scenario of 'Health Issues' in the Navegantes neighborhood, while respecting the knowledge base parameters of other Social Technology Projects present in the literature to generate new scientific knowledge. Thus, theory and practice were related during the stages, with the characteristics of the artifact proposed in 'Development' detailing points identified as parameters in the conceptual 'Suggestion' stage through the analysis of empirical solutions; and also relationship with the characteristics of the Object of Analysis, referring to the specific context of the explored environment. Presenting, in the developed Social Technology, a positive potential capacity to fill the institutional void highlighted by girls and women (cis and trans) living in the Navegantes neighborhood, the ‘Health Issues’.