PROSUMER: A participação do usuário na construção e montagem do mobiliário e o conceito do it yourself no período contemporâneo.

Abstract

This dissertation is a glance at the designer's role in society, it analyzes a mode to create and develop projects that can be openly distributed, and so manufactured by its own users. This way of conception reduces the role of intermediate producer and attributes the role to its own final customer, arising from this combination, the hybrid figure of the prosumer. The primordial objective of this research is analyse the methods in design projects, and evaluate in which moment we notice the users engagement in the artifact production, it all from the concept of do it yourself (DIY). This dissertation will be divided in four, the first refers to the bibliographical research about the insertion of design teaching and the european schools, the second is based on researches related to the project management methodology, the third one is grounded in the three moments analyses, they are the project, the production and consumption, analysing the users role in each case, the fourth one is based about the creation of a furniture, though and designed by the concept of do-it-yourself to the new reality - the one of the COVID-19 pandemic.