Sustainability and social inclusion as university teaching and extension activities in Univille

Abstract

This paper presents the report and results of teaching and extension activities of the Brinequo Project, developed since 2018 and which integrates the Teaching, Research and Extension activities of Univille. The project aims to develop recreational and educational toys that can be used in the treatment and rehabilitation of people with disabilities and as stimuli for the elderly. A participatory approach was used, involving academics from two classes of the Design course in the discipline Design, Ethics and Sustainability. To achieve the project's objective, the active learning methodology "Crowd-Design" was used in a participatory process carried out asynchronously through an online platform called "Cria Junto", that allows students to share their ideas and, in an interactive process, gradually optimize their proposals based on suggestions and contributions from colleagues, professors and professionals who work in the project's partner entities. As a result of teaching and extension activities, twenty games were created, nine games for people with disabilities and eleven for elderly people.