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Posts Tagged ‘affect’
The Affect of Corcovado: Critical Spatial Practices, Brazil
As Corcovado hovers over the city– often ephemeral, sometimes brutal, but always emotive– it is tempting to start to dissect its powerful quality to amaze/enchant/scare each viewer. Is this awe-inspiring affect (whether “good” or “bad”) achieved by shear scale, materiality and weight? or does it have to do with symbolism– the often ingrained image spiraling […]
Project Morrinho, Brazil: Critical Spatial Practices, Brazil, 2
Visiting Project Morrinho was not only extremely experiential [Brazil topography and sociology is directly confronted as one treks to the site] but it is also on the verge of extreme representation. Information visualization at its finest– displayed, collected, and built such that an instant affect is achieved: whether this is through multiplicity, iteration, modulation, shear […]