The transformation of landscape as as aesthetic idear

The present study seeks to thoroughly investigate and delineate the concept alongside the transformation of landscape as an aesthetic idea. On the one side it runs that nature perceived as landscape remains nothing else but granted, evident or 'natural'. On yet another side, and to some fairly significant extend, this thesis identifies landscape as a sheer idea and concept that is shaped and (re-)mediated in an ongoing process. The thesis examines the role of the observer and brings into agreement that every landscape is a produce of creative mental processes. In brief outline, this approach provides a framework for identifying landscape as being inextricably linked with media from the very beginning of their social and cultural inception. As glowing examples for the paradigmatic shift of the classical subjective vision model culminating in the emergence of a new prototype, the camera obscura, together with the panorama, fortify the prevailing argument that the mode of human sense perception is organised and determined by earlier acquainted recognitions. In this matter, as each and every medium strive after accomplishment, then this accomplishment is substantially determined by overwhelming historic, as well as thriving cultural circumstances. In conclusive terms, this study seeks to show how landscape counts as content of a representation, while simultaneously being a very own medium that specifically carries social, geological as well as historic knowledge. In fact, modern vision shall therefore never be bound to any single format or process, rather it will have to always undergo procedures aiming at reshaping the perceivable. Landscape is playing out its major characteristic, specifically that of being, in essence, a purely intellectual, virtual and synthetic product

User interface de aplicações móveis para museus : atenção partilhada

With the emergence and growing supply of mobile apps for museums it becomes relevant to study the importance of all the design aspects of those apps in order to provide users/visitors with a better museum experience. One of these aspects is User Interface (UI) which may condition the quality of the application experience as well as the museum experience, serving the function of intermediary. Since interface design must combine usability with appearance (Schlatter e Levinson, 2013) the design must always appeal to the user, representing also a potential source of distraction. Hence the concern of this dissertation is to understand how we can distribute the user's attention in a balanced way, between the application and the exhibition via the User Interface design. For better understanding of the issue – sharing the attention between the physical experience and the application - questions are addressed as: what represents a distraction during a visit to a museum and what comprises the attention process. Thus, it was possible to find some good and bad practice to design a good mobile UI which suits the visual criteria and does not require too much visitor’s attention, serving as a complement to the visit

Do arquivo ao novo : impactos da tecnologia digital no armazenamento e disseminação da informação na cultura contemporânea

While taking paths from the archive to the new, this dissertation reflects on the resulting impacts of the introduction, massification and dissemination of digital technology, in the way we store and deal with information, inside the complex that we understand as culture. To this end, a theoretical investigation is performed in order to build a conceptual body from which concepts are drawn in order to effectuate a practical research. The theoretical research starts with an exordium in which the concept of the archive is deconstructed in order to identify it as a device of power and to analyse its transition from a technical analog object into a digital technology. Following this, a historical context is established, drawing on the evolution of power exercises and apparatuses, and a reading of the impacts of the present technological mediation on experience, knowledge cons¬truction and forms of control is developed. Finally, some hypotheses on the evolution of technology are formulated. The practical research materializes in the form of a digital platform which takes place in two moments: one of archive, the other of program. The first moment, of archive, con¬sists of a repository of projects dealing with the dissertation’s subject. The second moment, of program, is configured as a cultural program implemented through computer programs. These, in their execution, result in performances which, taking from the information col¬lected on the archive generate a new experience of that same information. To this effect, a framework was structured in order to have computational processes systematized in a way that the performances result in experiences with a potential for novelty, expression and reflection. Both theoretical and practical components of the research seek to address digital technology not as an end in itself, but as a factor that affects human experience and behaviour

Selfmapping : o mapa colaborativo como medium de visualização espácio-temporal

THE MAP AS A COLLABORATIVE MEDIUM FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL VISUALIZATION This dissertation focuses on the relationship between maps and spatio-temporal data visualization. It is divided into two components: theoretical framework and practical approach. The study begins by questioning the role of the map in today’s digital society and particularly its role in visualization, and finishes with the conceptualization and development of an interactive dot map that visualizes data from Instagram and Twitter. Nowadays, geographic information is no longer produced just by experts, but also by ordinary people that are able to participate in data creation and exchange. The Web 2.0 lies in the heart of this change, where social media represent a significant tool for producing geotagged content, allowing its users to share their location and to spatially reference their publications. Furthermore, amateur mapmaking and neogeography have benefited from the emergence of several new devices that enable the creation of digital maps that are interactive, adaptable and easily shared on the Web. This study adopts a descriptive approach calling upon the diverse aspects of the map and its evolution as a medium for visualizing geotagged data, highlighting collaborative mapping as an emerging subject area that is of mandatory future research. Relevant projects are also analyzed in order to identify trends and different approaches for visualizing social media data in its spatial context, intended to support the project’s conceptualization, development and evaluation. The created map demonstrates how spatial knowledge and perception of place are now redefined by the contributions of individuals; it also shows how that activity produces new sources of geographic information, forcing the development of new techniques and approaches that allow an adequate exploration of content and visualization methods of the contemporary map

Criatividade e instituições: novos desafios à vida dos artistas e dos profissionais da cultura

Trata-se de uma abrangente colectânea internacional, organizada por dois dos melhores especialistas portugueses da área, Vera Borges e Pedro Costa, na qual se faz o ponto da situação das profissões artísticas e culturais no actual contexto de reconfigurações criativas e institucionais à escala global em que hoje operam as indústrias culturais, desde as artes plásticas às performativas e destas aos media de entretenimento. Cruzando a economia e a sociologia, bem como os estudos territoriais, este livro deixa-nos com uma visão panorâmica dos actuais campos culturais inédita em língua portuguesa. Manuel Villaverde Cabral Investigador Emérito do ICS O livro colige uma série de ensaios, alguns mais conceptuais e de banda larga, outros claramente direccionados para estudos de caso, tendo como mote o ciclo de seminários «Artists and cultural workers: careers and labour markets» e representando alguma da investigação mais inovadora e rigorosa que se tem produzido em Portugal e no estrangeiro sobre a economia da cultura, em cruzamento com a geografia e a sociologia da arte e das profissões artísticas, em particular no polémico e ambíguo domínio das «actividades culturais e criativas»

A sociedade romana aos olhos de Marcial : uma proposta didáctica de língua e cultura

Relatório da prática de ensino supervisionada, Mestrado em Ensino de Português e Línguas Clássicas, Universidade de Lisboa, 2011

As tecnologias móveis no processo de ensino e aprendizagem da língua inglesa

Trabalho de projeto de mestrado, Educação (Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação e Educação à Distância), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2013

O filme como recurso didático na aula de espanhol como língua estrangeira

Relatório da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, Mestrado em Ensino de Inglês e Espanhol no 3º Ciclo e Ensino Secundário, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Cultura, arte e media na identidade timorense

Tese de doutoramento, Estudos de Literatura e de Cultura (Cultura e Comunicação), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2015