Projeto Solte-se: O design como auxiliador do bem-estar dos estudantes da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

College admissions involves a series of significant changes related to a new routine, challenging students to deadlines, financial difficulties and cultural adaptations that can transform itself into stressors. The following papel presents a reflection over the role of design on society, searching for life quality improvement on the Uberlândia Federal University’s students. The main goal is to design a shifting and easy moving space, focused on minimizing the impacts of the student’s stressful routine, stimulating activities and intergroup conections. For such, it starts on the study of design and their ramifications – design thinking, environmental graphic design, moving design and way finding – also using methods for user identification and their needs (through an online survey) as well as similar projects analysis, establishing project requiriments and briefing, looking to integrate itself on an academic environment of decompression, but mainly of welcoming and social integration