Description
The subject of this investigation is the innovation projects and products that have been produced in the innovation laboratories of the public sector, with a focus on the Brazilian judiciary. Innovation in the public sector, mainly through digitalization, is a topic that has been increasingly present. In the Brazilian Judiciary, since 2021, there has been Resolution No. 395 of 07/06/2021 of the National Council of Justice, which determines the creation of innovation laboratories in all institutional bodies of the Judiciary. This research starts from the premise that innovations made in the public sector are part of a neoliberal subjectivity reproduced by the ideology of entrepreunerial government, a concept coined by Dardot and Laval (2017). In addition, the creation, development and implementation of innovation in these organizations largely uses design methodologies, which is why I studied how design methodologies drive and strengthen the neoliberal logic in these innovation projects. In addition to the bibliographical and theoretical review, two case studies were used as methodology. In the first case, interviews were conducted with the creators of a web app used by victims of domestic violence from the Regional Court of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and in the second case, non-participant observation was carried out at the workshops of a digital inclusion services programme organized by the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region in Brazil. The hypothesis is that the innovation projects developed by the laboratories of the Judiciary in Brazil, although mostly focused on access to justice, reproduce the neoliberal logic of problem-solving, and are driven by design methodologies, such as design thinking, which follows a Management Design model. This was verified by creating categories - points in common and points of divergence - between the two cases analyzed and crossing these categories with the theoretical framework studied.| Period | 14 Oct 2025 → 16 Oct 2025 |
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| Event title | 10th Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights |
| Event type | Conference |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Fields of science
- 505 Law
JKU Focus areas
- Digital Transformation