Virtual Architectures
4
2019-2020
02009235
Design
Portuguese
Face-to-face
4.0
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
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)
NoSyllabus
-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)
Pedro Filipe Martins Carvalho
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