Design and Technology: A Historical Perspective on the Mediating Role of Technology Between Industrial Design and Engineering

The interdisciplinary relationship between industrial design and mechanical engineering is sensitive. This research focuses on understanding how one can positively mediate this relation, in order to foster innovation. In this paper, technology is considered for this role since it has, in some historical moments, served as an integrator of these two disciplines, in processes that led to innovation. By means of an extensive literature review, covering three different periods of technological development, both disciplines’ positioning in society and their link with technology are analyzed and compared. The three case studies selected help to illustrate, precisely, the technology positioning between both disciplines and society. Literature assumes that industrial design is rooted in the rise of criticism against both the machine and the mechanized production. This is an opposing approach to the current paradigm, in which design plays a fundamental role in adapting technology to society. Also, the social problems caused by the mechanized and massive production triggered the mechanical engineering emergence, as a professionalized discipline. Technology was intrinsically connected with both industrial design and mechanical engineering emergence and subsequent evolution. In the technology conflict with society lays the reform and regulation for design practice, in its broadest sense.

Trandisciplinarity and Design: Comparative Review and Synthesis for the Design Process

Transdisciplinarity gained importance in the 1970s, with the initial signs of weakness of both multi- and interdisciplinary approaches. This weakness was felt due to the increased complexity in the social and technological landscapes. Generally, discussion over the transdisciplinary topic is centred in social and health sciences. Therefore, the major challenge in this research is to adapt design research to the emerging transdisciplinary discussion. Based on a comparative and critical review of several engineering and design models for the design process, we advocate the importance of collaboration and conceptualisation for these disciplines. Therefore, a transdisciplinary and conceptual cooperation between engineering and industrial design disciplines is considered as decisive to create breakthroughs. Furthermore, a synthesis is proposed, in order to foster the cooperation between engineering and industrial design.

Relatório da prática de ensino supervisionada realizado no agrupamento de escolas nº e de Évora na escola básica integrada André de Resende e na escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira

O presente relatório elaborado no âmbito da disciplina da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, do Mestrado em Ensino de Artes Visuais no 3° Ciclo do Ensino Básico e Secundário, é referente à Prática de Ensino Supervisionada no primeiro e segundos semestres do ano lectivo 2009/201O. Prática que se desenvolveu na Escola Básica Integrada André de Resende com a orientadora cooperante Professora Maria João Machado, e na Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira com a orientadora cooperante professora Luísa Gancho. Ambas as acções foram supervisionadas sob a orientação do Professor Doutor Leonardo Charréu. Para além dos Professores Orientadores, o presente núcleo n°2 constituiu-se pelos mestrandos, Eliezer Correia e Cátia Casquinha. O relatório da disciplina da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada divide-se em duas secções. A primeira secção que resulta da reflexão do que foi executado no primeiro semestre na Escola Básica Integrada André de Resende, e a segunda secção que corresponde ao segundo semestre na Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira, ambas localizadas na cidade de Évora. ABSTRACT: The present report was realized to cover the activities developed in the curricular unit Supervised Teaching Practice ("Prática de Ensino Supervisionada"), of the Master in Visual Arts Teaching, in the 3rd Cycle of Basic and Secondary Education. lt is relative to the “Prática de Ensino Supervisionada” developed in the two semesters of the academic year 2009/201O held at the "Escola Básica Integrada André de Resende", cooperating with the advisor local teacher Maria João Machado, and at the "Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira", with the advisor local teacher Luísa Gancho. 8oth actions were supervised under the guidance and scientific supervision of Professor Leonardo Charréu. Beyond these advisor teachers, the group N°2 was formed by the master students, Eliezer Correia and Cátia Casquinha. The report of the discipline of "Prática de Ensino Supervisionada" is divided into two sections. The first section that results from the reflection of the activity executed in the first semester at the "Escola Básica Integrada André de Resende", and the second section correspond to the second semester at the "Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira”, both located in the city of Évora.