Coletivos criativos como ambientes de identificação de tendências para a construção de cenários de futuro

Abstract

This work offers a perspective on the identification of sociocultural trends. We align the emergence of these trends to the constituent factors of the social imaginary, building on Maffesoli's work regarding the relationship between the imaginary and everyday experiences. We articulate this perspective with other contributions, particularly regarding methodology, built by combining aspects of comprehensive sociology, interpretive anthropology, and dialogism. By means of this methodology we seek to identify the consequences of a specific socio-cultural trend called being-together-with, so as to reveal a number of its associated emerging elements, in order to employ scenario building. Such methodological perspectives posit an approach to being-together-with which allows for the understanding of its respective resultant social forms qua social trend: Creative Collectives. Therefore, we identify some of these social forms in the city of Porto Alegre qith an understanding that, as the first stage of the manifestation of a sociocultural tendency, they stimulate other manifestations aimed at the emergence of new trends, particularly those related to the emergence of the creative economy.