9º Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Design

The Polymers Project: Organization, Usability and Products is linked to the project of Mapping of Materials, and it aims identifying, mapping, organizing, and providing information about the materials and their transformation processes, as well as promoting a critical- reflexive discussion about their applications in products and surfaces, so it can then generate applications of such contents within the scope of the design. Understanding plastic as an extremely functional and versatile material, will prompt us to discuss its implications in the production process, and especially its potential for production of design products in Brazil. We will seek to bring forth a mapping of the production of plastics for design, considering its methods of production, transformation processes, use and consumption, and also broaden the means for developing new methodologies of research and application for design products.