The Role of Image in Academic Argumentation: investigation of design practices and academic research in jewelry design

Abstract

In this article, the results obtained from the studies carried out from the thesis “Jewelry Design and Academic Research: limits and overlaps”, presented at the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program (PPGAU/FAU- Mackenzie) will be exposed. The research seeks to build a connection between jewelry design and academic research, based on the principle that we assume similarly to what happens in the arts: it is usually read, described and discussed through vocabulary derived from the theory of traditional science. However, there is dissatisfaction with a terminology that does not capture what we experience as essential and fascinating events in the arts and design. For this reason, some aspects of this dissatisfaction were presented, with the theoretical framework built between the so-called Practice based Research theme (translated in Brazil - 'Academic Research in the area of ​​Project Practice), in the stricto sensu postgraduate scope, vis-à-vis the analysis of concrete cases of academic research in jewelry design, at