Design, craftwork and participation: reflections for the productive autonomy of women in Maranhão

Authors

  • Raquel Gomes Noronha UFMA
  • Luiza Gomes Duarte Farias Universidade Federal do Maranhão
  • Raiama Lima Portela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.642

Keywords:

Handicraft, Autonomy, Participatory Design; Maranhão

Abstract

Among the various approaches of Brazilian´s traditional handicrafts context, the income prodution and productive autonomy of women stand out as priorities in the promotion of gender equity. In this paper, we discuss the possibilities and challenges of thinking and designing with women artisans towards economic autonomy, questioning the use of institutionalized parameters, such as those for measuring female empowerment, applied by the World Economic Forum. Based on participatory design and the use of photo-elicitation tools, we proposed actions to map production chains and the co-creation of materials for the commercialization of artisanal products, aiming at the discussion about autonomy production of artisans and their promotion. We sought to share worldviews from awareness and initiatives to promote handicraft production, treated in this article as a multiple case study (YIN, 2005), in three productive groups at Maranhão. As a result, a debate is presented on how autonomy is produced and perceived: as a process of conscious self-regulation of such productive groups with the social actors involved in their production chains.

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Author Biographies

Raquel Gomes Noronha, UFMA

Designer, master, and doctor in Anthropology. Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Maranhão, where she is part of the Graduate Program in Design. Leader of NIDA – Research Center in Innovation, Design, and Anthropology, develops research in the areas of gender and power, participatory methodologies, the relationship between design, materials, handicrafts, and design anthropology.

Luiza Gomes Duarte Farias, Universidade Federal do Maranhão

Undergraduate student in Design and member of NIDA (Research Center in Innovation, Design and Anthropology), where she works as a Researcher of Scientific Initiation - PIBIC.

Raiama Lima Portela

Master in Design by the Graduate Program in Design at the Federal University of Maranhão - PPGDG/UFMA (Capes Masters Scholarship). Graduated in Design from the Federal University of Maranhão (2014). She is a researcher at NIDA - Research Center in Innovation, Design and Anthropology (CNPq). Her research focuses on design and craftsmanship, gender issues within the scope of artisanal production, and the epistemological limits of the designer-researcher and the field of research, based on the reflections of design anthropology. In the last two years, she worked as a researcher in the MAPEARTE project - Mapping and documentation of Maranhão handicrafts.

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Published

2022-12-23

How to Cite

Noronha, R. G., Farias, L. G. D., & Portela, R. L. (2022). Design, craftwork and participation: reflections for the productive autonomy of women in Maranhão. DAT Journal, 7(4), 124–143. https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.642