Teachers and Students of the Master's Degree in Human Development-MDH, UNITAU participated and developed activities, in the days 16, 17 e 18 September 2026, of the VIII Development Symposium, Technologies and Society (SIDTECS). The theme of this edition of the event was: Utopias in dystopian times.
The objective of the event was to contribute to the dissemination of scientific production and to strengthening the training processes of PPG-DTECS students and teachers, in theoretical terms, conceptual, methodological and didactic, in the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology and Society (CTS), articulating development, social innovation, scientific dissemination and epistemic justice.
The participation of the MDH group in the event included, specifically acting as GT coordinators and evaluators of works presented at the event, as well as dialogue with teachers, students and researchers participating in the event and the production of original text on the theme of their participation, intended for the future composition of scientific dissemination material, in the form of a collection or thematic dossier. The following teachers participated in the event: Rachel Duarte Abdala, André Luiz da Silva, Elisa Maria Andrade Brisola, Leandro Roberto Neves and Régis de Toledo Souza. The MDH students who participated were: William Joseph Gomes de Oliveira, Luciana Rosa de Barros Goncalves, Arianne Addana Ambrosio Santiago and Vítor Henrique Duque Lourenço. There was also the participation of Gabriel Fujarra Magalhães Capello and Lerrine Marie Tabata Carvalho Schildberg, MDH graduates.
MDH teachers and students presented the following works in the GTs listed below:
GT 03 – Technoscience, Body and Gender
Title: Gender Perspective and Labor Court Decision: Diversity Literacy as a Critical Training Instrument
Authors: Arianne Addana Ambrose James, André Luiz da Silva
Title: Domestic and Family Violence Against Women, Social Identity, Daily Life and Maria da Penha Law
Authors: Luciana Rosa de Barros Goncalves, André Luiz da Silva
GT 04 – Territories, Knowledge and Social Technologies
Title: Monstrous Abjects or an In(Body)Human Feed?
Authors: Gabriel Fujarra Magalhães Capello, André Luiz da Silva
Title: Popular dance as social technology: epistemologies of the body, cognitive justice and resistance to epistemicide.
Authors: Lerrine Marie Tabata Carvalho Schildberg, Carlos Alberto Maximum pepper
Title: Viola Caipira and Sociability in the Paraíba Paulista Valley
Authors: William Joseph Gomes de Oliveira, André Luiz da Silva
GT 06 - Education, Extension and Training Practices in CTS
Title: School failure and university success
Authors: Vítor Henrique Duque Lourenço, Rachel Duarte Abdala
GT 09 – Culture, Development and Epistemologies of the South
Title: Study of the Territorialization of Tourism in Ubatuba, North Coast of the State of São Paulo: a tribute to José Rogério Lopes
Author: André Luiz da Silva
The work entitled “Study on the Territorialization of Tourism in Ubatuba, North Coast of the State of São Paulo: a Tribute to José Rogério Lopes”, authored by Prof.. André Luiz da Silva, was awarded first place in the first edition of the Prof.. Jose Rogério Lopes.
Among the books launched at the event is the one entitled:“We are Jeca, but we are jewel: life story, knowledge production, generosity, friendship: a tribute to José Rogério Lopes”, organized by Carlos Alberto Máximo Pimenta and André Luiz da Silva
Participation in VIII SIDTECS was also an activity of the (KING-DES) Interdisciplinary Network for Studies on Development and Knowledge, which constitutes a research network and exchange of academic-scientific experiences with Brazilian and international researchers within the interfaces of Culture and Development, with emphasis on popular knowledge and practices as driving elements of techniques, technologies and social innovations. The network hosts a range of research, within the thematic-agglutinating axis, let them discuss: design and projects; artifacts, material and immaterial heritage; museums; craftsmanship; collective work; festivals and popular demonstrations; traditions; regionalities; medicinal plants; ancestries; popular knowledge and practices; income generation; socioeconomic dimensions between rural and urban; local reality; gastronomy; health; diversity; decoloniality; etc. This Network promotes the exchange of researchers and students from the institutions involved, as well as build an action agenda, collaborations and scientific-technological activities that drive the development of the researched regions, resulting in promoting the appreciation of local knowledge, the influence of the direction of public policies for local development and income generation, the implementation of collective work practices (associations and cooperatives), sustainable and sustained.
