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Novas Formas de Comunicação: A tecnologia QuickTime VR
Get PDFTraditionally, virtual reality systems use powerfull 3D computer graphics to model and render virtual environments in real-time. Traditionally too, virtual reality systems use 3D computer graphics to model and render virtual environments in real-time, and his approach usually requires laborious modeling and expensive special purpose rendering hardware. The rendering quality and scene complexity are often limited because of the real-time constraint. This book presents a new approach which uses 360-degree cylindrical panoramic images to compose a virtual environment. The panoramic image is digitally warped on-the-fly to simulate camera panning and zooming. The panoramic images can be created with computer rendering, specialized panoramic cameras or by “stitching” together overlapping photographs taken with a regular camera throught its nodal point. Walking in a space is currently accomplished by “hopping” to different panoramic points. The image-based approach has been used in the commercial product QuickTime VR, a virtual reality extension to Apple Computer’s QuickTime digital
multimedia framework.This aplication uses cilindric 360º panoramas to build virtual enviroments, endeed, images.
This software was chosed for the experiments related with this research cause it has all necessary ability to produce virtual enviroments image-based. This text describes the architecture, the file format, the authoring process and the interactive players of the VR system. In addition to panoramic viewing, the system includes viewing of an object from different directions and hit-testing through orientation-independent hot spots
Immersive Photography: A Practice-Led Methodological Approach to Landscape Photography Research
No full textIn recent years, there has been a notable shift in the design field towards practice-led research, driven by the recognition of design practitioners as valuable contributors to knowledge production. However, the lack of well-defined methodologies for conducting practice-led research in academia has posed challenges to its progress and widespread adoption. This article aims to address this gap by providing examples of effective methodologies in practice-led research. The article emphasises the importance of robust frameworks that foster a symbiotic relationship between design practice and research, integrating theoretical inquiry and hands-on experimentation. It presents an innovative approach developed by the author during their PhD, which contributes to the ongoing discourses on practice-led research in design. The proposed methodology consists of four stages: the landscape, data gathering, reflection, and feedback. By engaging in iterative cycles of design exploration, critique, and reflection, the researcher gains a holistic understanding of design processes and their outcomes. This approach facilitates an in-depth exploration of the complex interplay between design concepts, materials, and the surrounding landscape. Ultimately, this article contributes to the discourse on practice-led research in the design field by introducing a methodology that embraces the practical, creative, and theoretical aspects of design inquiry. It responds to the increasing demand for examples of effective methodologies and provides a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners engaged in practice-led research at the PhD level
Co-designing Collective Housing for a Regenerative Future: Lessons from Indigenous Communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and South America
No full textSince moving to Aotearoa New Zealand, I have been attempting to learn about Mātauranga Māori and understand how we can embed values from local cultures and traditional knowledges into the design of our future built environments. These learnings help me rethink architectural design and pedagogy not only here, but also in my home country, Brazil, and the wider South American context. In the global context of climate and ecological crises, Indigenous knowledge can help us learn to live lives with a closer connection to the natural environment, to be mindful of the use of natural resources and to be more collective-oriented. Indigenous perspectives are important in our transition to a regenerative future, where we aim to go beyond sustainability to create positive impacts for ecology, health and society. In this context, I have been working with a team of researchers from Auckland University of Technology and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, on a project investigating co-design practices to develop better housing models with Indigenous communities. Indigenous concepts of ‘home’ are multidimensional and often extend beyond the physical and social environments where people live. Although there are diverse cultures across the world, fundamental ideals of ‘home’ are shared amongst many Indigenous communities, such as relationships that connect a person to all that surrounds them, connections to other people, living beings, land, ancestors, stories, languages, and traditions. Most housing options in colonised countries have tended to promote values of individualisation, private property rights and nuclear family units; public housing policies and architectural designs have often been imposed on indigenous communities based on non-indigenous ideals of good housing. However, more recently, these original values and collective forms of living have been re-emerging across the globe, with many successful examples of new collective housing co-designed with Indigenous communities. This presentation will share findings from this research carried out in Aotearoa New Zealand and South America, which investigates contemporary housing solutions co-designed with Indigenous communities. Case studies from different countries are explored, and interviews with architects reveal key lessons learned in participatory practices with residents. The findings show differences and similarities across the Pacific, highlighting key valuable shared principles that can be applied to all forms of housing for a regenerative future, such as multigenerational relationships, connection to the natural environment, shared spaces and resources and initiatives to create a real sense of community. The lessons learned about co-design processes can be valuable for designers working with collective housing in the Global South and other areas across the globe
Duregraph: Exploring Duration in the Post-Photographic Image
No full textThis practice-led research project artistically considers how experienced time might be perceived in manipulated photographic images. The inquiry is developed through a series of digital images whose content is renegotiated over time while the subject in the photograph remains within the frame. The resulting duregraphs, constitute an unstable space between a photographic composite and a moving image. The aims of the thesis are to question conventions of power in viewing and to expand how we might conceive time as duration within digital photographic images
The Golden Blueprint: An Exploration of the Winning Qualities Shared Among Kiwi Olympic Greats
No full textThe research draws on visual storytelling, assemblage, media representations of Olympic athletes, and growth and winning mindsets. The research explores how five shared winning qualities of multiple Kiwi Olympians can form a blueprint to inspire young adults in New Zealand to pursue their own goals.
A practice-led methodology within an artistic research paradigm guided the project, supporting an iterative, reflexive, and hands-on design process. The work unfolded in three phases: Research (establishing the conceptual foundation), Ideation (developing the core concepts), and Design (realising the final visual outcomes). The study shows how editorial design and assemblage can effectively communicate values-based messages to counter the negative effects of social media by presenting the stories of Kiwi Olympians, intertwined by shared qualities, to encourage the pursuit of sporting goals
The Winged Bear: An Exploration of Anthropomorphic and Autoethnographic-Inspired Visual Storytelling and Its Impact on the Design of a Children’s Picture Book
No full textThis research considers the ways in which autoethnographic and anthropomorphic storytelling informs the design of a children’s picture book for young readers. This practice-led research asks, “How might visual storytelling explore anthropomorphism as a means to inform the design of an illustrated picture book that seeks to enrich the imagination, empowering young readers to envision a hopeful future?” Drawing on discourses by authors who explore anthropomorphism in narrative texts, as well as fairy tales and fantasy, and contextual practitioners and picture-book designers, the study focuses on designing a picture book that offers the audience a narrative world that elevates hope and imagination. Methodologically, the research design underpinning the study is shaped by a practice-led inquiry emanating from an artistic research paradigm. The study contributes to knowledge about the potential of stories sourced from the self, paired with anthropomorphism and other literary devices, such as allegory and metaphor, to generate visual narratives articulated through illustration and text to resonate with the reader and express transformative emotions
Strange Oceans: Exploring the Interaction Animation and Typography of Digital Poetry
No full textThis practice-led research project investigates the digital medium as a platform for poetry. It examines the design of the digital poem Strange Oceans, which depicts how users socially interact on the Web. Specifically, it explores the application of mouse events, animation, and typography in terms of their poetic effects on the textual content. The research sits within the realms of electronic literature and digital poetry and acknowledges how the digital medium mediates poetry’s textuality and reading experiences. It considers the production of digital poetry that has a lower barrier of entry in terms of their development and reading experience compared to previously proposed generations of electronic literature. Methodologically, the research adopted reflective modes of action research. Through practice, the research produced several exploratory and developmental prototypes for the digital poem through a phased structure of methods. Mouse events, animation, and typography were prominently used as metaphors that supported the poem’s messages, which encouraged empathy for the poet and provided subtextual details to the poem’s narrative. This project contributes to knowledge regarding accessible digital poetry, providing insight into how one could consider the three digital tools individually and in combination to support a poem’s expression
Using Nostalgic Illustration (懷舊藝術) and Poetry to Stimulate a Sense of Cultural Connection
No full textThis practice-led, artistic project asks,
How might poetry and illustration that engages with the Chinese phenomenon of 懷舊藝術 (nostalgic art) be employed to suggest a sense of cultural belonging?
Drawing inspiration from the work of 熬路 Ao Liu, in the study, I design a distinctive, poetic travelogue titled 忘歸(The Melancholic Traveller). Reflecting on ‘日常生活’ (engagement with the everyday), the project demonstrates how one might engage a particular form of contemporary Chinese illustration, poetry and traditional book design to awaken nostalgic desires and elevate a sense of cultural connection for a diasporic Chinese readership
Duregraph: Exploring Duration in the Post-photographic Image
No full textThis practice-led research project artistically considers how experienced time might be perceived in manipulated photographic images. The inquiry is developed through a series of digital images whose content is renegotiated over time while the subject in the photograph remains within the frame. The resulting duregraphs, constitute an unstable space between a photographic composite and a moving image. The aims of the thesis are to question conventions of power in viewing and to expand how we might conceive time as duration within digital photographic images
Place-making: Wānanga based photographic approaches
Get PDFThe words above are from the poem Māori King Tawhiao wrote expressing his love for his homelands of the Waikato and the region known today as the King Country. The words translate to: “I look down on the valley of Waikato, As though to hold it in the hollow of my hand.” Now imagine a large-scale photograph depicting a close-up frame of cupped hands trying to hold something carefully
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