Propriedade intelectual na arquitetura e no design: elaboração de cartilha

Abstract

Intellectual Property (IP) has significant importance and relationship with Architecture and Design, segments of the creative industry that, in essence, work with creation. Studies point to the importance of encouraging teaching and use of Intellectual Property’s legal precepts in Universities, especially in technology courses. The aim of this work is to contribute to the dissemination of IP culture, and for that a booklet is prepared in which the importance, concepts, terms and means of protection are presented, aimed at teachers, students and professionals from the architecture and design fields. The process of creating the booklet was described in detail and for its basis and justification, qualitative research was carried out in the academic curriculum of all Architecture and Urbanism and Design courses of the Brazilian Federal Universities (UF), aiming to verify the offer of IP subjects among their classes. Another qualitative research was carried out in the same courses of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) aiming to identify potential of IP protection in studies specifically developed at the end of courses and in institutional programs of scientific initiation scholarships (PIBIC) and technological development and innovation (PIBITI). The results obtained indicated that no Architecture and Urbanism course; and only six Design courses offered exclusive IP subjects in the Federal Universities analyzed. At UFAL these courses have potential for IP protection in PIBIC projects and undergraduate work, as well as IP protection, intrinsic to academic work. This work also offers, as a suggestion, a basic program proposing a syllabus for insertion of an IP discipline in these courses. It is concluded that lack of knowledge about IP and the identified protection potentials justified the creation of a booklet resulting in a form of IP teaching specific to those segments. As a final result, it is presented both the methodology of elaboration of the booklet, as well as some of its finalized parts.