TURISMO, CULTURA E AMBIENTE; L'APPROCCIO SISTEMICO DEL DESIGN - Fattori umani, sociale e strategici nella Estrada Real | Minas Gerais, Brasile

The objective of this work is to recognize, throughout diversity, the cultural and social values present in the Estrada Real Territory, proposing a systemic approach, with instruments able to assimilate the relations inherent to the local tourism and its consequences, due to the social and cultural qualities of the territory. The relationship territory and environment, their diversities and interconnected qualities, reinforce the exploratory interest of this research, as well as the current and mainly the future consequences, in regard of the diversities that are the issues addressed in this study, traversing the Paths of the Estrada Real, “scars” in the mineiro territory, traced by Portuguese people, slaves and indigenous, who portray the Minas Gerais State in its nearly 1.600km (994 miles) of history and culture. The specific objective of the proposed study is focused on the current analysis of the Estrada Real Territory, composed by Touristic Regions, traversed by four paths: the Path of Diamonds (Caminho dos Diamantes) – 350km / 317 miles –, the Path of Sabarabuçu (Caminho do Sabarabuçu) – 160km / 99 miles –, the Old Path (Caminho Velho) – 515km / 320 miles – and the New Path (Caminho Novo) – 630km / 391 miles. In the current scenario, throughout a mapping developed with the systemic methodology, we have observed the specific characteristics of their communities and traditions and their inter-relationships in the territory context, focused on the process, understanding their potentialities for innovation and their perspectives in the point of view of design. The study and appliance of a systemic methodology, related to and established by design, as a discipline and research tool, assume strategic values, giving importance to human, social and economical values, which are essential in the processes of activation, promotion and diffusion of the innovation, under a humanistic point of view. At last, having stood out the applied methodology of systemic design, we foresee the creation of a new theoretical scenario for the process, emerging the cultural, environmental and territorial specificities, disposed between the actors and the environment, established in this particular universe of the Estrada Real and its deep influence in the mineira culture.