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Presentation
Presentation
In this UC, Illustration is taken in an expanded sense, being strongly based on research, debate, and a continuous experimentation in articulation with various disciplines of design/ arts/ visual and popular culture, resulting in less traditional formats and objects. Illustration, visual narratives and Drawing are in this curricular unit a laboratory for questioning social and political phenomena as also communicating points of view regarding these.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 4
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
2 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT93-17980
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
ILLUSTRATION AS COUNTER-IMAGE Glosa as illustration: the text that comments the text. Social/ political implications of illustration: discussing and working on racial representations in dialogue with ONG, in the context of graphic project. ILLUSTRATION AS NARRATIVE Building and discussing visual sequences/ narratives in multiple contexts. ILLUSTRATION AS COSMOLOGY Explore the nature and culture dialectics, human and non human, subject and object, fact and fiction, from a speculative and transitional point of view. Underline the porosity and permeability of active and action-research pedagogies on the relationship between the past and the present, focusing on traditional crafts fundamental to the community experience and to certain rituals.
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Objectives
Objectives
. Promote the engagement of students in current social matters through illustration as a practice that interrogates, investigates, dialogues, debates and acts; . Expose students to a wide range of illustration approaches and encourage them to explore them extensively; . Explore Illustration as an expressive resource of Communication Design; . Experiment different ways of conceiving, making and applying visual sequences and/or narratives in an educational and interactive context; . Promote the development of theoretical-practical approaches to illustration that question the traditions of the field, bringing references from other areas such as design, arts, cinema, new media, psychology, philosophy, history, post-colonial studies, among others).
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Development of a project in dialogue with external institutions, allowing students to reflect and act in certain social and/or artistic contexts.
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References
References
.Fanon, F. (2017 [1952]). Pele Negras, Máscaras Brancas. Letra Livre. .Gannon, R.l; Fauchon, M. (2020). Illustration Research Methods. .Berry, A. et al. (2022). The Black Experience in Design. Identity, Expression & Reflection. Alworth Press. .Karasik, P., Newgarden, M., (2017). How to read Nancy: The elements of comics in three easy panels. Fantagraphics Books. .Khandwala, A. (2020). Decolonizing Design Means Many Things to Many People- Four Practitioners Discuss Decolonizing Design. AIGA Eye on Design. Disponível em: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/decolonizing-means-many-things-to-many-people-four-practitioners-discuss-decolonizing-design/
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
Yes
