Abstract
In this work, we study how museum inclusiveness could be supported through immersive political-aesthetic experiences. These experiences serve as a way to generate knowledge from personal displacements and from what we can call ‘learning from’. We explore how museum exhibits can both shape and respond to social and political change through attempts of bringing different social groups closer together through empathic approaches. We debate the ideas of ‘learning from’; ‘dialectical image’; ‘ordinary’; and ‘common’. These concepts are brought to the spotlight in the artistic and social experience provided by our immersive video installation ‘Framed City: bodies in transit’ (13th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, 2022). The installation experience brings the audience closer to a recurrent part of the working class routine in Brazilian metropolises: daily long hours tied to commuting by public transportation. For that, ‘Framed City’ space synthesizes the environment of a regular bus and puts the participant in the shoes of a metropolitan working-class individual – watching degraded peripheral landscapes pass through the windows (TVs) and listening to other people’s conversations (stories told by representatives of a chosen working social group). This experience instigates reflections capable of bringing out feelings of empathy and understanding of the city from other narratives and points of view. The immersive installation plays both an educational and inclusive role: it brings visitors closer to a setting that is ordinary but does not belong to them; and it gives voice to marginalized social groups that do not usually find representation in such spaces.
Presenters
Victória Helena Michelini JunqueiraStudent, Master's Student in Culture, Landscape and Built Environment, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Pedro Vitor Costa
Student, Bachelor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Melanie Martins
Architect and Urban Planner, Graduate Program in Architecture (PROARQ/UFRJ), PROARQ FAU UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
EMPATHY, IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE, LEARNING FROM, NARRATIVE DISPLACEMENT, ORDINARY, SOCIAL REPRESENTATION
