Resumo:

This project seeks to investigate contributions of ethnography to creative processes in design in order to propose a discussion on the ontological limits of the discipline and present methodological possibilities. The Field Notebook is the main device of this work and from it starts its empirical dimension. The initial research object appears in 2017, with construction workers in São Paulo, who were invited to design their work routine on the construction site for one month. This process culminated in a book subsidized by the Contraconductas project. In 2018, the same process was carried out with prostitutes from Salvador. This doctorate provides for an in-depth analysis of these two works, in addition to two processes: Possible Women - Body, gender and incarceration, with inmates from the Women's Penitentiary of the Capital (SP), started in 2016 and currently underway and Cuadernos de Medellín, which will be developed in artistic residency in Colombia. It is sought, from the production of notebooks by collaborators, to create files and collectively build a vocabulary of image analysis. The texts of the authors of the decolonial studies are central theoretical references in the research. Decolonial is a term that emerges in the context of the studies of the so-called Postcolonial and brings together theorists from different countries of the global South in the perspective of tracing a mental and social cartography of our time from archives, languages and subjects, beyond the Anglo- European canon.