Uma visão integrada do lugar na arte pública através do design participativo
A relação entre as actividades laborais e os recursos naturais locais nas práticas de interacção com populações periféricas
- Name
- Paula Pinto
- Year
- 2013
- Institution
- Lisbon School of Architecture Universidade de Lisboa
- Supervisors
- Fernando Moreira da Silva
- Discipline
- Ambient Design
- Scope
- CoDesign
- Taxonomy
- Praxiology
- Type
- Theoretical/Practical
- Language
- Portuguese
- Wordcount / Pagecount
- 172,200 / 492
- Joint supervision
- No
Interaction practices with peripheral populations through participatory design
Research Process (7 methods)
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Intervention in the landscape of Natural reservation of Sapal de Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António
Case study of "touch sanitation" artistic performance
Artistic co-creation with Cacela Velha community
Cacela Velha community sample
Visitors to the intervention
Group of experts
| # | Name of Method | Research Phase | Research Approach | Researcher Role | Object of Study / Participants | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Literature review | Exploratory | Qualitative | x | x | x |
| 2 | CoDesign | Generative | Qualitative | Design process | Intervention in the landscape of Natural reservation of Sapal de Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António | 1 |
| 3 | Document analysis | Generative | Qualitative | x | Case study of "touch sanitation" artistic performance | 1 |
| 4 | Design project | Generative | Qualitative | Design process | Artistic co-creation with Cacela Velha community | unspecified |
| 5 | Questionnaire | Evaluative | Qualitative | x | Cacela Velha community sample | 8 |
| 6 | Questionnaire | Evaluative | Qualitative | x | Visitors to the intervention | 162 |
| 7 | Questionnaire | Evaluative | Qualitative | x | Group of experts | 7 |
Knowledge Transfer & Exchange
Knowledge Exchange (PhD Process): Exchange with community
| IK&T | Academia | Design Practice | Society |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context | No | No | No |
| Vision | No | No | No |
| Means | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Recommendations (6)
Adopt an integrated view of place as a baseline for public-art and participatory-design projects, explicitly relating human, social, cultural, historical, ecological, economic, and labor/resource dimensions before intervening.
- Scope:
- Meso → Macro
- Time Horizon:
- Medium
- Evidence Strength:
- Indicative
- Feasibility:
- Medium
Use empathic participatory interaction design—based on listening, dialogue, and non-hierarchical knowledge exchange—as the preferred methodology for working with local communities in public art.
- Scope:
- Meso
- Time Horizon:
- Short → Medium
- Evidence Strength:
- Indicative
- Feasibility:
- High
Co-create public artworks with peripheral or marginalized communities by treating local narratives, objects, labor routines, and life histories as legitimate sources of artistic knowledge and public representation.
- Scope:
- Meso
- Time Horizon:
- Medium
- Evidence Strength:
- Indicative
- Feasibility:
- Medium
Expand multi-sensory, documentary, and archive-based public-art strategies that move beyond a vision-only model and communicate local realities through sound, video, objects, and spatial experience.
- Scope:
- Meso
- Time Horizon:
- Medium
- Evidence Strength:
- Exploratory → Indicative
- Feasibility:
- Medium
Include systematic validation with participants, general audiences, and expert panels in participatory public-art projects in order to assess community impact, methodological adequacy, and place-based understanding.
- Scope:
- Meso
- Time Horizon:
- Short → Medium
- Evidence Strength:
- Indicative
- Feasibility:
- High
Repeat and support this type of participatory place-based art regularly, since recurrent projects can dynamize places, raise local self-esteem, and strengthen the relationship between communities and their environments.
- Scope:
- Macro
- Time Horizon:
- Medium → Long
- Evidence Strength:
- Indicative
- Feasibility:
- Medium