Design. Estreitando laços trabalhistas com o ecossocialismo

Abstract

The productive and political structures, both private and public, that condition the production of goods and lives today are directly related to how we create and conceptualize design. As a consequence of the socio-environmental impacts caused by this model of existence, (re)existence is a fundamental condition for a systemic shift that allows us to move forward with less and in a different way, respecting environmental rationality by understanding that we are also nature, and offering further development to the work necessary to achieve equity. To this end, design can strengthen another value-laden and productive body in this construction, collaborating with ecosocialism in parallel with the concepts of Good Living, degrowth or post-extractivism, ecological justice, and ecofeminism, as evidenced in the theoretical framework of this research. As a methodological approach, this study begins with a systematic and unsystematic literature review, articulating ecosocialist concepts with design through the contradictions presented in each of them, making use of analysis within historical and dialectical materialism with interdisciplinary theory, adding to this analysis four interviews, conducted by the author, with activists and design professionals. From then on, the objective of this research is to identify what developments design gains when aligned with ecosocialism as a science of doing, where the answer lies in political action through work. In this path, praxis is a fundamental point, and in design, this reasoning is guided by Mazzarotto and Serpa (2020), Borrero (2015), and Gustavo Amarante Bomfim (Couto, Farbiarz, Novaes, 2014), who contribute to this research by relating the political organization of Latin American social movements to a pluralistic, non-oppressive teaching approach in the field, making it possible to guide insurrections for which this science has been, and still can be, a tool for social transformation processes. Ultimately, one of the answers lies in qualifying the industrial debate for design, breaking with a certain fragmented relationship with the land, because by considering the geographical and ecological conditions of a space, it becomes possible to construct an ecosocialist design work. The research leaves openings for future studies in design in the Amazonian territory.