Entre as linhas: Rio Tinto, a cidade-fábrica vista pela perspectiva do bordado livre

Abstract

Rio Tinto is a small town located in the countryside of Paraíba. It was founded by a family of immigrants who implemented a project to construct a factory-town with a production aimed at the textile sector. In view of this context, the following project was drawn upon the city of Rio Tinto as a source of inspiration for the development of this work, specifically using its architectural structures as inspiration for the creation of geometrized lines. The results were applied to embroidered pieces, using free embroidery techniques. This study used the Design Thinking method, encompassing the following stages: immersion, in which a literature review was conducted through articles, theses, dissertations and websites; analysis and synthesis, involving field research in the town of Rio Tinto to collect images of buildings to be used as visual references; ideation, which is the generation of ideas for geometrization of these buildings; and prototyping, in which the possibilities for creating embroidered pieces were examined, with the goal of explore as many architectural details as possible and use them in the process of geometrization. This work aims to develop a design project. The architectural structures of Rio Tinto buildings were used as the main reference for developing this work, for the purpose of fostering appreciation of tangible heritage and local history. Both were presented through pieces derived from geometrization of these spaces and their application in free embroidery