https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/1163 2026-05-18T21:16:13Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44494 Aranhas, vaga-lumes e cupins: assentos de vivências de uma designerartista Fernandes, Adriana Sousa Hernandez, Maria Herminia his doctoral research, Spiders, Fireflies, and Termites: Seats of Experience of a Designer-Artist, explores new pathways for creation and critical reflection within the field of design, interrogating the fetishism and cultural symbolism attributed to objects. The study centers on the chair as an entity that transcends its utilitarian function to inhabit an artistic and symbolic dimension. Spiders, fireflies, and termites—creatures that once populated my daily life in a rural home, gradually vanished as my presence on the land became more constant. The narratives and lived experiences I shared with them took shape as chairs: objects that embody memory and symbolic meaning. From this encounter emerged the concept of “seats of experience”, developed through a hybrid lens that merges the perspectives of designer and artist, a fusion expressed through the neologism designerartist. The central hypothesis proposes that the intentional de-functionalization of design objects, such as chairs, expands their expressive potential, transforming them into vehicles for cultural critique and reflection. The primary aim of this research is to investigate the de-functionalization of chairs, reimagining them as objects of artistic and reflective expression that interrogate the relationships between humans and nature, while fostering awareness of issues such as deforestation and biodiversity loss. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative approach, combining artistic experimentation with an analysis of conceptual chairs, supported by a literature review on design and art. The creative process began with the collection of wooden fragments and evolved through five design perspectives: Desfunctionalization, Conceptual, Sustainable, Cultural, and Interdisciplinary. This process culminated in the creation of works such as the Spider Chair, Firefly Chair, and Termite Chair. The principal findings underscore the theoretical contribution of desfunctionalization as a method for eliciting artistic and cultural expression within the practice of the designer artist. The installed chairs demonstrate how the loss of functional purpose can generate reflection on environmental and cultural questions, revealing that design can transcend conventional utility to cultivate dialogue between art, personal experience, and sustainability. Universidade Federal da Bahia Tese 2025-12-02T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44269 Delson Uchôa e o corpo como arquivo: arte e política nos anos 1980 Melo, Ana Beatriz Bezerra Mortimer, Junia Cambraia This thesis presents a study of the paintings of the artist Delson Uchôa (1956-), from the 1980s, a period highlighted in his artistic trajectory due to his participation in the exhibition Como vai você, Geração 80?, in 1984, at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (RJ). The methodological procedure was built from frictions raised between the "inside and outside" of the images. It takes as a visual resource about the operations worked in the research, the Möbius tape, in the work Caminhando (1963), by the artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988), because each image and documents found in institutional and personal collections, transformed the construction, as well as the cuts of the ribbon, by unfolding as a spiral, containing several parts. Each one intertwines as the participants cut it. We focus on the construction of the subject's scene in this temporality, to understand the historical processes and the theories developed, in the references and relations with the art system. In this context, we discuss aesthetic regimes and the political aspect of production. The thesis presents the works as a body of painting and defends the artist's poetics as a living archive that performs in the photographic act, converting memories and cultural codes into the production of experiences, in the construction of environments and together with spaces and landscapes. Universidade Federal da Bahia Tese 2026-01-12T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44268 Permeando o sertão: experimentos e desdobramento nas artes gráficas Silva, Adriel Figuerêdo da Bezerra, Ricardo This dissertation, entitled Permeating the Sertão: Experiments and Developments in Graphic Arts, investigates how printmaking, in dialogue with expressive materials from the Brazilian Northeast — such as leather, clay, fabric, and lace — can critically reimagine cultural representations of the region. The research is grounded in a methodological approach that combines artistic practice, theoretical reflection, and critical analysis of artworks using techniques such as screen printing, collagraphy, linocut, and direct impression. Through works like Colcha Gráfica, Brasiliano, Sob o Sol do Nordeste, and the Folhinhas series (2021–2024), the project proposes a sensitive graphic listening to the symbolic layers of the territory, incorporating concepts such as hybridity, belonging, and gesture. By challenging historical stereotypes and exploring printmaking as an expanded language, the study positions artistic practice as a space of resistance, memory, and invention. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação 2025-07-25T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43675 Visualidades e contação de história: design para livros infantis ilustrados Souza, Tiago Santos Silveira, Carina Santos This dissertation investigates the intersection between editorial design and applied emotions in storytelling practices, focusing on the creation of children’s books that are more sensitive to the affective and cognitive dimensions of childhood. It is based on the understanding that storytelling is an ancestral practice, culturally rooted and still central to processes of knowledge and language mediation. The research seeks to articulate concepts from neuroscience, pedagogy, narrative performance, and design with behavioral studies on emotion, in order to propose requirements for the editorial design of illustrated children’s books aimed at affective storytelling. The investigation adopts a qualitative and transdisciplinary approach, composed of theoretical review, interviews with storytellers, and Bardin’s (2011) content analysis, which enabled the unveiling of latent meanings within narratives and the organization of categories capable of articulating emotion, design, and narrative performance. It is grounded in authors such as Damásio, Freire, Van der Linden, Lazzarato, Mariño, Silveira, Manovich, and Barthes, integrating discussions on embodied cognition, modularity, transcodification, and affectivity in design. The results highlight the relevance of editorial design as a mediator of sensitive experiences, capable of enhancing the practice of storytelling and the formation of readers who are more critical, expressive, and connected with the world around them. UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA Dissertação 2025-11-18T00:00:00Z