Material lab for Interior Design: trajectory from physical to digital collection

Abstract

This article presents the implementation path of the Materioteca for the Interior Design area and analyses the opportunities and challenges of implementing the collections, from the physical to the digital, considering the importance of building technical knowledge about the materials in the teaching-learning process and in the development of research by future interior designers, associated with socio-environmental aspects. This is qualitative applied research, with an analytical-descriptive approach, whose methodological procedures were bibliographical research and case study. As a result, the article points out guidelines for the maintenance of the physical collection and for the configuration of an integrated digital collection, aiming at proposing a reference model.