POLAR ROUTE: THE EXPERIENCE OF SAILING ONLINE (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This article seeks to record the process of reinventing project classes in the Design Course during the COVID-19 pandemic, where in-person classes entered the 100% EAD modality. The adoption of teaching and learning strategies sought to establish new connections, maintain student motivation by encouraging them to participate in creative dynamics and carry out innovative projects on collaborative platforms. We proposed a project that stimulated participation, research, the development of socio-emotional skills and that the Internet became the window to the world in order to allow the expansion of the universe of references from the communicational point of view, the visual languages of films and television series were also incorporated in order to allow greater interaction between all the actors in this process. In addition to the narratives and poetics so necessary for this difficult time, especially for young people, far beyond the adventure series in this proposal the protagonist is real: the sailor Beto Pandiani. He performed seven ocean crossings on a catamaran without a cabin. The Polar Route will be his eighth expedition to take place in 2022. Pandiani competed in catamaran regattas for many years and became American champion in 1989. His first ocean crossing was from Miami-USA to Ilhabela-SP. It has already crossed the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, carried out the Drake Passage and carried out the New York - Greenland route, among others. In the Polar Route expedition, he intends to create a documentary about climate change. The fact of bringing a real case to the discipline was accepted with great enthusiasm by the students. The online sailing experience provided innovative projects that will be incorporated into the Polar Route catamaran. Having your project come to fruition is every young designer's dream. Apresento os meus agradecimentos a todos que apoiaram este trabalho realizado na disciplina Design IV, ofertada na 2ª série do Curso de Design junto ao Centro Universitário do Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia. Agradeço o apoio da instituição educacional de excelência e também ao Centro de Pesquisas do Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, ao diretor Eng. Mecânico José Roberto Augusto de Campos; à coordenadoria do Curso de Design, Prof.ª Drª Claudia Alquezar Facca, grande incentivadora de parcerias estratégicas no ambiente acadêmico; ao Engenheiro Naval Lorenzo Cardoso de Souza que nos auxiliou em diversas etapas, contribuindo para a análise crítica das experiências pesquisadas e, principalmente, um voto especial ao velejador e escritor Beto Pandiani que compartilhou suas vivências e nos permitiu viajar na Rota Polar por meio do ambiente virtual.