Creativity creating an alternative path in two stories about the invisible ones – a STS (Science, Technology and Society) study

Abstract

In 2017 two events emphasized the importance of preserving UFRJ's memory, inviting the community to reflect on the institution's daily activities and knowledge. Many of these knowledges and practices are still invisible, almost always undisclosed and are not part of a so-called “official story” - of those generated within a mainstream. In this group there are those who, with creativity, choose an alternative path to create local knowledge. Therefore, in commemoration of 100 years of UFRJ, this paper brings two stories that involve heterogeneous elements and creativity to produce facts and artifacts. One is the story of building a cable needed to connect a music keyboard to a computer; the other tells about all the juggling that was necessary to teach a new way of editing videos.