Educação, arte e engenharia: processos colaborativos.

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the collaborative activities carried out by a group of professors and students of the visual arts and electronic engineering who together develop projects that are affirmed beyond the limits of their areas of formation. The research context is the Ateliê that occupies room 103 of the Arts Center of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), and the period analyzed comprises the activities developed between 2012 and 2018. Research on this multidisciplinary space seeks to analyze the activities and projects that the group proposes and sets in motion with collaborative practices. The research problem is to question how these collectively developed collaborative activities could contribute with new learning and experiences in the formation of the group participants. It is hypothesized that this space can be considered "heterotopic", concept of Michel Foucault, and "mestizo", concept proposed by Icléia Borsa Cattani, when dealing with interdisciplinary relations, without defined limits, with numerous possible combinations. As methodological procedures were adopted: observation, listening, conversation, analysis of photographic records of the group's collection, annotations made during moments of interaction between participants, study of a part of the group's intellectual production, materials bibliographical and artistic and technological artifacts produced by the group during the period covered. The choice for cartographic writing takes the concept of "intercessors" by Gilles Deleuze to comment on encounters, crossings, relations and agency resulting from these compounds and these group compositions. The analyzes of the collaborative activities point to the "sensitive listening", the "watchful eye", concept of Josep Esquirol, the honest conversation and the studies of Michel Foucault on "parresía". The coexistence in this space can favor the students' self-esteem and motivation, necessary ingredients for the training processes, as well as the significant experiences that can come from there. The idea of a process that takes place through the act of "walking" not only in the literal sense, but also in the metaphorical sense, leads us to this imbalance necessary to "get out of place." Thus, the Möebius strip, which is also the source of Lygia Clark's "Walking" work, serves as an inspiration and guide to what is presented here.