Design teaching for regenerative cultures: a partnership between University and Federal Protected Areas in Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This work intends to present a still little publicized approach to design through the partnership between the Department of Arts and Design at PUC-Rio and ICMBio. From the premises of Regenerative Design and Permaculture, the students of the Advanced Project - Socio-environmental Uses and Impacts course aimed to design for 5 federal Protected Areas (PAs), having ICMBio environmental analysts as coeducators. After four semesters of partnership and the expansion of the scope of action from one to five PAs of Mosaico Central Fluminense, the methods and techniques used, the planning of the discipline, the participation of the servants in the classes and in the monitoring of the projects were analyzed. Thus at each new semester, we were able to propose changes to the schedule suggested by each of the parties involved. The result is a bank of collaboratively developed regenerative culture design projects awaiting implementation opportunities.