Three areas of practice
To develop a participatory model for the practice, I have translated the concept into models for the forthcoming participatory workshops. This work is grounded in three pillars:
1.Progressive Practice Evolution: Barbara’s work is documented in PhD work diaries, showcasing a continuously evolving practice.
- This is a reflection of her experimentation with the proposed visual methods.
2.Critical Analysis of Existing Models: By reviewing the work of various practitioners, the researcher critically analyses and identifies specific models and visual techniques to incorporate into her PhD work.
- This approach is informed by bricolage research, enabling her to build a critical visual toolkit that addresses the specific needs of the study.
3. Historical reinterpretation: Engaging with historical information sources embodies the ethos and aspirations of the Cybersyn project, which is rooted in a utopian vision of technology as a tool for societal transformation in the 70’s.
- This aspect aims to reinterpret and revisit historical narratives to inform and shape contemporary, bottom-up creative practices, (re)creating the ideals of the past in present-day contexts.
Models of practice
- Historical information sources from old magazines of the 1970s, available through an open-source digital library, for developing new critical data visualizations in collage work.
- Ripped paper, as a framing technique to choose what the participants want to see represented. Visual synecdoche that uses a part of the scene to represent the whole.
- Background/Foreground hierarchy: these two layers are edited in different way in order to put a focus attention point within the composition.
- Historical photos of Cybersyn can be used for inspiration of the Latin American context
*the researcher-practitioner will provide multiple prints to the session such as distorted images, re-scaned images to contribute to participants’s work experimentation.
Multi-layered typography:
- account of the practice
- practitioners, review of the practice
- Barbara’s own practice
Further than the account of the practice…
- Historical information sources from old magazines of the 1970s, available through an open-source digital library, for developing new critical data visualisations in collage work.
- Ripped paper, as a framing technique to choose what the participants want to see represented. Visual synecdoche that uses a part of the scene to represent the whole.
- Background/Foreground hierarchy: these two layers are edited in different way in order to put a focus attention point within the composition.
- Historical photos of Cybersyn can be used for inspiration of the Latin American context. Moreover, 70’s historical photos of “Magazine Computer” old magazines, for visualising the utopian dream of technology for people
Design offices/groups/guys doing visual counternarratives
Boot Boyz Biz: Dialogic rooms that fuse criticism and visual play
Another Graphic
Kevin McCaughey
Boot Boys Biz
LOKI
Chris Ashworth
*the researcher-practitioner will provide multiple prints to the session such as distorted images, re-scaned images to contribute to participants’s work experimentation.
Models of practice for participatory fieldwork
- review of the existing practice to generate model of participatory practice in community workshops
- old 70’ magazines –
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT! define 3-4 models of practice (diagnosis)
- Iconoclasistas, practice review, online workshops