Class Project Seminar II

The UC is a theoretical and practical laboratory placing design and designers as active agents to imagine possible future scenarios based on publication and research, emphasizing the relationship between design and the contemporary and speculative concept of the Archive. The approach is deeply rooted in the contexts of design and the arts, considering elements such as the historical significance of visual materials (archives), cultural contexts and the dynamic interaction of social processes (geopolitics, geoaesthetics). We seek to explore complex solutions, thinking about a set of forums that are interconnected in their purposes and objectives, and articulate the ground for an inter-relational approach to the different UCs. From a group of guests (artists, designers, curators, researchers, etc.), content will be shared on a wide range of topics, highlighting a holistic view of Design.  

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Constellation as a process of creation in curating, artistic practice and research; the structure of the Archive as a model for research in Design and the Arts; fiction taxonomies and strategies, appropriation and remediation practices; speculative skills of databases, digital files; individual memory and collective memory – Man: product and producer of Culture; Object and non-objects; presentation of the field and lexicon of LivrObjecto and LivrEdição; foundations for language and cultural matrices: application in the formulation of PROJECT and METHOD Ideas/Ideals; Fundamentals of Book Materiality; Support, Structure and Operation; Form, System and Efficiency; Construction of the Plan for Space; Execution project; Book as Inhabited Place; Syllables, Words, Texts, Hypertexts in the context of visual methodology; Multi-Inter-Transdisciplinarity in Design.

Promotion of actions with external guests, of high caliber and national and international careers, seeking to transmit knowledge and experiences in the various specific areas of the study cycle. Development of innovative and interdisciplinary didactics, where analysis, synthesis and narrative exercises serve as triggers for the development of interventions and projects; implementation of active and collaborative methodologies, transmedia, that allow theoretical-practical exploration.  

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