Design espiritualmente útil: banco Navegante

Abstract

The work presents a creative practice where the design process is used as a self-reflective meditation through the form. Starting from a cyclical methodology, based on tacit experimentation (“thinking-and-doing”), we sought to immerse ourselves in a self-conscious creation process, which in turn, generated a support bench for meditative practice. It is a “spiritually useful design” (Walker), whose broad vision, as a conceptual project, is based exclusively on human values, free from economic pretensions, but with meaning-laden personal, social and cultural considerations. As a tangible result, the artifact is the physical expression of the author’s internal sentiments, which, when reflected, confronted and processed, helped him to transmute internal anxieties associated with professional choices, serving as a kind of “therapeutic design function” (Pantaleão) through the union of the material and the spiritual. Keywords: Propositional Design; Reflective Practice; Spiritually Useful Design; Bench; Meditation.