Projeto de carro de mão para catadores de resíduos recicláveis em meio urbano

Abstract

This report aims to present the design of a wheelbarrow for collectors of recyclable materials in urban areas, which was conceived in favor of the real needs of workers in this category. This project has its main justification based on the fact that these workers need a working tool that offers minimal comfort at work and can contribute effectively to the activity of collecting and storing recyclable materials in order to most models encountered is produced by the collectors so archaic and craftsmanship. This project also has considerable social value for their contributions and investigations in the Social Design and Design for Sustainability. In order to explain theoretically the work were made conjectures about the Social Design, Design for sustainability and Ecodesign, as well as explanation of the type and characteristics of solid waste transported by scavengers. In this context, we also carried out a participatory research with the collectors of the city of Rio Tinto - PB, so we could experience the practical needs of professionals and the characteristics of the profession locally. From the standpoint of the methodology were used design methodologies based on authors such as Bonsiepe, Munari and Lobach. As a result, was designed and developed the design of a new wheelbarrow, inspired by natural forms of elements of nature, serving the majority requirements of a this type of project, like comfort, practicality, functionality, as well as limitations income from the public. In the final proposal were suggested innovations and possibilities - if they become viable for collectors or companies - such as versions of the project coupled with bicycle, or even mechanical and electrical motors. This experience confirmed, among other things, how the involvement of the designer in the design of products aimed at a social meet the lower social classes, promoting not only a practical improvement in the activity of these people, but a strengthening of the need for more professional humane and understanding the role in building a more clean and habitable world.