Title: Design de calçados para pessoas com deficência física: os prazeres do belo e do conforto
Abstract: The aims of this PhD research are to investigate why historical aspects and how ergonomic and aesthetical-symbolical aspects regarding shoe design can with provide physically challenged women both effective social and cultural inclusions.This investigation resulted in the creation of Mi Piacce methodology, which contributes to analyze physiological, psychological, sociological, and ideological pleasures brought about by shoe design those specific wearers.Also, it verifies how these aspects could cause them social and cultural inclusions.Inductive method and combination between qualitative and quantitative methodologies were applied.In the first subproblem, why historical aspects could cause those wearers social and cultural inclusions, comparative analyze between secondary data about the history of shoe design in XX and XXI Century was applied, which resulted in principal styles.Due to the lack of Brazilian products, it could be concluded that the wearers desire known shoe design styles, considered to be iconic.In addition, it could be concluded that while the fashion shoe designer preoccupied in demonstrating time spirit, orthese and prosthese designer valorized the functionality of design.Once the paradigm change was incorporated into ICF Classification (2001) by WHO, it could be understood why the majority of projects for disabled people did not incorporated wearers' social and cultural dimensions.This research relied on Constructivism Epistemology and Interpretativist Theory, especially Phenomenological Theory when analyzed semistructured interviews with wearers.Eighteen people were interviewed, five health professionals, one shoe design expert and eleven wearers -nine female and two male.The interviews followed the Brazilian Ethics Code of CONEP.It was used to analyze the interviews with wearer's the codification and posteriori relation to The Four Pleasures Theory by Jordan (2000) to respond the second subproblem -how ergonomic and aestheticalsymbolical aspects regarding shoe design can with provide physically challenged women both effective social and cultural inclusions.Firstly, qualitative data was analyzed, then, quantitative tabulation was analyzed by applying simple statistic.It was concluded that each shoe design element were related to specific types of pleasure and co-related to others pleasures.Physio-pleasures were related to balance, security and physic comfort concepts.It was observed that psychopleasures are related to two dimensions; the first one implies task accomplishment, i.e., the facility in handling and maintenance; the second dimension, which is emotional, implies self-esteem and well-being concepts.Socio-pleasures were related to personal desire and sociability.Ideo-pleasures were related to social responsibility, sustainable development and life cycle of products.Therefore, it was verified how these concepts can improve both effective social and cultural inclusions.Qualitative-quantitative analyzes from the interviews resulted in eight generalizations regarding to shoe design for physically challenged women: higher perception of social oppression on ceremonial occasions, desire for physio-pleasures and for shoe design which camouflage feet or leg problems, preoccupation with higher price of shoes, difficulty to find pleasant shoes, acquisition of the same shoe style more than once, wish for inclusion and recognition of singularity.