Management System for Integrative Projects

Abstract

This paper presents the process of 2018’s Integrative Project, named: “Family origins and the searching for myself”, in the first year of the undergraduate course in Fashion Design at the State University of Londrina. The system has been being improved in theory and practice since 2010. To do so, the authors employ the deductive method, with a qualitative approach of exploratory and descriptive nature, in a case study that emerged from the application of the system – named Management System through Knowledge Process (MSKP). The system is used to design through creative, cognitive, scientific, and projective methods, guided by the Design Thinking ( DT) and the application of creativity tools to support the teaching and learning. It is concluded that the cognitive and emotional involvement of students helps them understand the design process, once it relies on their unique repertoire and life experience, and provides them with the identification of needs and possible design solutions at the same time.