Tenth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

The experience proposed by the Research Project “Amazon: Graphic Visuality, Poetic and Imaginary” has favored the process of learning and the poetic creation of Masters students in Design, and undergraduate students from different areas of the University of Brasília - UnB. The creative process has been involving students and teachers in a permanent dialogue with the work of the Brazilian anthropologist and founder of the University of Brasilia’s Darcy Ribeiro, with Nucleus of Amazonian Studies of UnB (NEAZ), and with the reality perceived in the experience in the Amazon, in study trips to Alter do Chão, municipality of Santarém, Bragança, municipality of Belterra and in the communities of Coroca, Arapiuns, Pará, Brazil. This project is exploratory research based on creative processes in the design, an approach in which the ethnographic and iconographic study of the traditional population of the Amazon is the main focus. Collaboration takes place on several levels, both conceptually and at the level of action planning, and on the ground of artistic practices themselves. The research group moved to Alter do Chão and captured on-site images and prints using analogical and technological devices. From the records were born the works, the product of dialogues and individual and collective insights adding to the Amazon Project’s knowledge and rich poetic production.