MetAMORfose: uma proposta de revolução pelo amor na educação da vida através do design estratégico

Abstract

Strategic design research in dialogue with complexity has enabled the expansion of theoretical and practical knowledge in new and challenging contexts. Based on interconnected complex concepts such as disorder–interaction–order–organization, and principles of recursivity, hologrammatic and dialogical thinking, and autoecorreorganization, this thesis was shaped through the experience of agipensentir (feeling-thinking-acting) life across seven possible levels: (1) Energize–Synchronize–Emit; (2) Experience–Reflect–Act; (3) Feel–Think–Do; (4) Diagnose–Plan–Execute; (5) Share–Design–Cooperate; (6) Connect–Agree–Co-create; (7) Energize–Synchronize–Emit. These integrated and circular levels are presented as metAMORphoses, understood as processes of loving each part in the here and now until the whole and the void are perceived. The life-based experimentation alongside early childhood—a fundamental human phase—was redefined from evidence collection through practice to the analysis of a corpus of institutional, informational, and artistic materials. From the longstanding Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child to national, state, and municipal public policies—including the Child’s Booklet – Passport of Citizenship, documentaries, conferences, and the audiovisual art of Mundo Bita—18 materials were examined through a respiratory metaphor (AERO) as Auto-Eco-Re-Organizations. The method, as a decolonial path, presented life through the twists and turns of spiral circuits of metAMORphosis of bodies/corpus (autoecorreorganizations) that breathe (inspiration–expansion and expiration–retraction). This proposal invites us to agipensentir each and all inseparable dimensions of the microcosm–individual–society–species–life–macrocosm that we are.