Landscapes of skin and pixels: urban history, perception, and images

Authors

  • Maria Angélica da Silva Federal University of Alagoas
  • Roseline Oliveira Federal University of Alagoas
  • Fábio Nogueira Tiradentes University Center
  • Jaianny Duarte Pitágoras College

Keywords:

Cartography, Cities, Landscapes, Digital, Research methodology

Abstract

Present-day cities are additionally various cities in time. If we understand that temporalities are mixed together, history becomes a fascinating game of unraveling. Time and space, the tangible and the intangible, both always plural, constantly cross each other, especially in today’s hastiness. Folding upon themselves, the times of the cities present us a challenge of how to run through their layers and how to perform historical studies when a vector axis is abandoned. In fact, how do those layers present themselves, especially in cities where experiences were gathered for long-lasting periods? The physical matter gets older and leaves traces on surfaces. How to deal with such traces? They are our objects of study. Our methodological course began with field explorations: before the arrival of books, the presence in loco was fundamental. However, the intangibility of digital screens offered another sort of leap. If, on the one hand, it has put us apart from the experience with the matter, on the other hand, it has opened a gigantic horizon and contact surfaces. Facing such impasses, we bring considerations on the experience with cities, histories and the digital, that compose a trajectory of two decades of collaborative research dedicated to the construction of information.

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Author Biographies

Maria Angélica da Silva, Federal University of Alagoas

She is an Architect and Urbanist and Ph.D. in History, with postdoctoral studies at the universities of Évora, Portugal, and Bologna, Italy. She is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, where she coordinates the Landscape Studies research group since 1998. The theme of this article has been the subject of research projects and articles at the national and international levels and also underlies the link between her group and the AISU, the Italian Association of Urban History.

Roseline Oliveira, Federal University of Alagoas

She is an Architect and Urbanist and Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism, with post-doctoral studies at the University of Évora, Portugal. She is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, where she coordinates the Postgraduate Program in Inhabited Space Dynamics. She is a member of the Landscape Studies research group, working on the Brazilian northeastern landscape with a focus on heritage issues and the socialization of this knowledge.

Fábio Nogueira, Tiradentes University Center

He is an Architect and Urbanist, Master in Inhabited Space Dynamics, and teaches at the Architecture and Urbanism course of the Tiradentes University Center in Maceió, Brazil. He is a member of the Landscape Studies research group at the Federal University of Alagoas, where he coordinates the Taba-etê Creation Laboratory. He works on the theory and practice of digital processes in architecture and urbanism.

Jaianny Duarte, Pitágoras College

She is an Architect and Urbanist and Master in Inhabited Space Dynamics. She teaches at the Architecture and Urbanism course of the Pitagoras College in Maceió, Brazil, and is a member of the Landscape Studies research group at the Federal University of Alagoas. She is a researcher at the Taba-etê Creation Laboratory, where she studies the analysis of photographs and images of the city, cartography, mobility and urban experience in the contemporary city.

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Published

2019-12-13

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 19 (2019): V!19 The Construction of Information

Section

Tapete