Indicadores de sustentabilidade no contexto do desenho industrial

Abstract

This research is part of the “B” line of research – Planning, Conservation and Social and Environmental Development – in the Graduate Program in Environmental Management at Universidade Positivo. Its central theme is the use of sustainability indicators as support to the monitoring, evaluation and management of sustainability in the design of products and services. As for methodology, this research is based on propositions by Quivy and Campenhoudt (2008) Marczyk, DeMatteo and Festinger (2005), Creswell (2003), Goldenberg (2002), Gomes et al. (2000), Meadows (1998) and Demo (1995) as well as the dispositions found in Federal, State and Municipal laws and all technical regulations pertaining to the issue at hand - and which will serve as guidelines to be followed in order to reach the planned objectives of this work. This dissertation consists in an exploratory research, generating qualitative data and based on bibliographical and documental sources, validated through repeated analysis. The results are both theoretical and practical. In the first case, pointing out deficiencies in design management considering the Brazilian reality in regards to legislation and technical regulations. It also points out priorities; sets guidelines to sustainability indicators in order to reach a replicable result; increases the recording of methods and measurement of results and consequences as well as the performance of sustainable design. The practical results are the identification of indicators in the context of industrial design, which allow evaluation, and monitoring of the process, with aim to minimize or eliminate harmful damage to the production system in social, economical, cultural and environmental areas. Another goal was to subsidize public policy by providing reliable, systematized, up-todate data which will continue to be updated over time and can be compared to other regional and international data.