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Dialogue With Interfaces: Beyond the Visual Towards Socio-Spatial Engagement

Dialogue With Interfaces: Beyond the Visual Towards Socio-Spatial Engagement

Ana Paula Baltazar dos Santos, Guilherme Ferreira de Arruda, José dos Santos Cabral Filho, Lorena Melgaço Silva Marques, Marcela Alves de Almeida
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522573715|ISBN10: 1522573712|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522587484|EISBN13: 9781522573722
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7371-5.ch006
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Baltazar dos Santos, Ana Paula, et al. "Dialogue With Interfaces: Beyond the Visual Towards Socio-Spatial Engagement." Interface Support for Creativity, Productivity, and Expression in Computer Graphics, edited by Anna Ursyn, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 129-148. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7371-5.ch006

APA

Baltazar dos Santos, A. P., Ferreira de Arruda, G., Filho, J. D., Marques, L. M., & Alves de Almeida, M. (2019). Dialogue With Interfaces: Beyond the Visual Towards Socio-Spatial Engagement. In A. Ursyn (Ed.), Interface Support for Creativity, Productivity, and Expression in Computer Graphics (pp. 129-148). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7371-5.ch006

Chicago

Baltazar dos Santos, Ana Paula, et al. "Dialogue With Interfaces: Beyond the Visual Towards Socio-Spatial Engagement." In Interface Support for Creativity, Productivity, and Expression in Computer Graphics, edited by Anna Ursyn, 129-148. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7371-5.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter grapples with the hegemony of the visual and its pervasiveness in current urban installations. It discusses how technology and the visual are fetishized instead of used in their dialogical potential to engage people in socio-spatial transformation. This chapter presents the trajectory of the Graphics Laboratory for Architectural Experience at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (LAGEAR) in its theoretical and practical development. This chapter then discusses LAGEAR's main drives, which are the playful interaction, the distinction between interface, and interaction and dialogue, in order to create interactive interfaces that actually engage people in socio-spatial transformation. It presents examples of the authors' works, drawing from visually based to bodily engaging and socio-political installations. Discussion concerns the problematization that leads to the need of engagement rather than the bodily engagement. Emphasis was put on working with the socio-spatial context and proposing interfaces that take into account the process in its openness and indeterminacy instead of prescribing a product (even if an interface-product).

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