Furniture design in public school: production, use and post-use

Author(s)

Antonio Takao Kanamaru

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2006-08-31

Examining board members

Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos; Maria Isabel da Silva Leme; Clice de Toledo Sanjar Mazzilli; Rafael Antonio Cunha Perrone; João Jurandir Spinelli

• Advisor: Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos

Abstract

This work is a historical approach on production and usage process of school furniture in the public education system in Brazil, focusing São Paulo, from the problem of generation and destiny of scrap of this very product. The obtained results present the history of the responsible executive organs, concepts, circumstances and a implanted models. Chiefly, evidence the raise and worsening of the influence of vandalism on the school furniture, between 1990 and 2005, whose analysis of its meaning indicates the importance of the participation of user-student in the usage and production process, having as social and environmental tool the design in shool communitary production. (AU)