The document discusses creating an ethnographic observatory in Rio de Janeiro to observe transformations happening in urban public spaces, capture stories and images, and analyze questions involved to propose future possibilities for the areas using strategic design tools. A graduation class has been conducting ethnographic research, and design is being used to materialize the anthropological analysis into proposed interventions in social urban spaces.

1. Escola Superior de
Desenho Industrial
UERJ
Rio de Janeiro
Key words: cities, public spaces
Ethnographic Observatory of Design
and Social Innovation in Rio de Janeiro

2. To create an environment of observation, exhibition and dialogue
about the transformations that have been happening in Rio de
Janeiro’s urban spaces, inspiring the qualification of the debate
upon the city future from the design point of view.

3. A graduation class has been realizing ethnographic incursions,
capturing stories and images. From the observations, the main
questions involved have been analyzed and using strategic design
tools, different possibilities for the area future appears.

4. To communicate the ethnographic conclusions and understanding
design as the strategic project though, it was the device to
materialize the anthropologic analysis and to turn it into the
proposal of interventions in the social urban space.