Arte, identidade cultural e design: o papel da arte na construção das identidades no design de interiores contemporâneo

Abstract

This research regards the possible convergences between art, design, and cultural identity, under the interior design perspective. A contemporary frame was used for the investigations, encompassing the era of mobile devices, new technologies, fragmented identities, and fluid boundaries. The research general objective was to present a reflection on the concept of cultural identity in postmodernity, relating it to the universe of art and design in order to demonstrate the importance of the fluidity of cultural identities in the construction of the interior design project. The research were to present a literature review in the fields of art and design, as well as in the social and philosophical concept in which the question of cultural identity is currently found, focusing on contemporaneity, and also on the fluid thinking of the boundaries between both areas, as well as the convergences between art and design. The research further discusses how cultural identity is seen today, and how it is portrayed in the interior design project. The dissertation further presents and reflects on the work of three different interior designers, all of which are under a contemporary condition of convergence between art and design, peripheral roots, and relevant action in the midst of a globalized and multicultural universe. The dialectic methodological approach was chosen, allowing the understanding and reflection on the object of study in its contemporary dynamics and complexity. The analysis and synthesis method was used, consisting on decrypting interior design through its component elements. The methodology further encompasses the comparative methods approach through comparing interior design projects to design objects, and art installations. An autobiographical methodology was also used through considering the research author’s experiences related to interior design practice, comprising the identity and narrative aspects of each production. As a result, the dissertation points out to the presence of art in contemporary interior design in a formative way. It is comprised in the creative process of the designer living within a modern liquid and globalized reality, who reaches the memory for references that come from the identity and can, in turn, influence the identity.