Virtual Architectures

Recommended Prerequisites

Previous attendance to the subject Expressão Plástica e Multimédia is a prerequesite.

Teaching Methods

During the semester the themes will be introduced, and 2 exercises will be proposed.

Conception and manipulation of complex relations between elements. Assessment of practical assignments valuing creativity, development of new ways of answering the proposed challenges and the formal coherence of results. Conceptualizing in the presentation of assignments will be valued.

Learning Outcomes

The objective of this subject is to familiarize the student with the languages of informacion visualization and infography. Using animation technologies the students will demonstrate complex relations of information in a clear way.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

-infography case studies

- visual languages in the 20th century

-creative exploration of information versus rigor

-information visualization papers

-the 3D in the visualization of information

-storyboard

-narrative sequence of information.

Head Lecturer(s)

Mauro Costa Couceiro

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Project: 45% + 55%: 100.0%

Bibliography

-Edward R. Tufte (1990). Envisioning Information. Graphics Press

-Leland Wilkinson (2005). The Grammar of Graphics, Springer.

-Gregory M. Nielson, Hans Hagen and Heinrich Müller (1997). Scientific Visualization: Overviews, Methodologies, and Techniques. IEEE Computer Society.

-Spence, Robert (2007). Information Visualization: Design for Interaction (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall

-Lewi, Paul J. (2006). Speaking of Graphics

http://www.datascope.be/sog.htm

-Michael Twyman (1975). ‘The significance of Isotype’

http://isotyperevisited.org/1975/01/the-significance-of-isotype.html