The Immaterial Labor of the Designer and Sustainability: dead ends

Abstract

The history of design followed the history of the development of the industries, and to the professionals of this area designing objects, develop graphic pieces and organizing processes that favors the production and consumption of goods. Aware of that context, the present study aimed to understand the importance of immaterial work of the designer, as well as the possibilities of your binding to sustainability. For this, a qualitative research, in which participated four designers linked the two studios located in a northern city of Paraná State, which reported their experience and their linkages with the environment. The results showed that the profession of designer finds different ways to connect with the preservation of nature, but various difficulties to expand that bond. At the end of the survey, noted that the work of the designer occurs amid a series of standoffs involving the demands of production. But cannot be reduced to them, and may also bring to the daily life of its activities effective concern with nature, the environment and human beings.