Reflexões sobre a comunicação pública de ciências a partir do Dikenga dia kongo

Abstract

The paper presents a reflection on the application of Dikenga dia Kongo, one of the philosophical foundations of the Bantu-Kongo peoples, and the Encruzilhadas to public science communication practices in non-formal education processes. In order to disseminate these fundamentals and think of them as epistemic magnifying glasses, we analyze them in the context of a technological development workshop. The report-analysis deals with the workshop "Peripheral Visions", held by the Institute of Peripheral Sciences in a public school in Manaus, Amazonas. From this activity we discuss how technological development and scientific dissemination focused on technology can take other directions when done under an epistemic regime of another philosophical matrix. Throughout the report-analysis we point out 7 crossroads that deepen tensions emerging from the activity process. Through the confluence between some of the foundations of Bantu-Kongo cosmology and theoretical bases of public science communication, social studies in science and technology and social technologies, we suggest ways of reading the knowledge and practices used in the process of scientific dissemination through a peripheral, racialized and technical autonomy-oriented look.