THE BIOART OF THE INSTITUTE OFICINA CERAMICA FRANCISCO BRENNAND: A STUDY ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
BioArt; Biology Teaching; Non-Formal Spaces.
Art and Science are fields of knowledge and human production that walk side by side over time, although they are seen more for their differences, than for the possibilities of interactions. Thus, it established itself as the object of study the interdisciplinary relationships between Art and Biology – configuring the term BioArte, as a factor that promotes biological and artistic knowledge. In that context, the objective was to analyze the contributions of BioArte to the process of teaching and learning of Science and Biology at Instituto Oficina Cerâmica Francisco Brennand (IOCFB). To this end, field research was carried out to relied on two central processes in the construction of the data. Being a referring to participation of the Institute's social actors, who underwent interviews; and, the process of capturing photographic images to survey elements from BioArt. With regard to data processing, the interviews were recorded and later transcribed and submitted to Content Analysis in the Bardin's perspective. While the photographs were subjected to analysis of the denoted and connoted senses in the light of Barthes. in possession of results, it was possible to establish that several elements of BioArte are inherently associated with the IOCFB complex, whether in terms of territorial and history and, mainly, in the artistic works displayed in the collection. The nature constitutes a guiding motif of Brennan's art, as well as structuring one of the axes institution's curatorial In this way, several elements of biology are associated with the complex, whether the representations of forms that allude to the world nature, such as human, animal, vegetable bodies and the metaphors of life that encompass, above all, sexuality and the egg – a key element in the art of Francisco Brennand. The IOCFB constitutes a space of wide social, historical and educational value, not limited to the typical knowledge of the artistic environment, but being a field fertile for other areas. In this way, BioArte is essentially imbricated in the Brennand's legacy and constitutes an element susceptible to the teaching and learning of contents of biological sciences. Therefore, it is expected, from this study, to foster discussions about science education in non-formal spaces of Teaching and Learning that are not essentially scientific.