From representation to data visualization,
design and statistical reference.
This exercise is an approach to design forms of public monuments, and the particular way of assuming a particular sociocultural context. Basically it is proposed to create monuments to update their commemorative function, rememorante and history, an exercise in political persuasion updated as the dynamics of cultural consumption typical of modern societies. It is caring about what will happen, things that can happen or that happen.
But how can you speculate on what will happen? In these projects becomes important reference point for the statistical measurement systems, which allow to forecast through facts and figures. Another important reference constitute political campaign plans, the revival and the imposition of power exercises. Without making an inquiry about what political understood as partisanship, or specific power struggles, and instead of representing them visible social problems, it is proposed monuments slide towards the social idea based on numbers and quantities. Therefore, it becomes important visualization exercises data, and graphics tool in relation to graphic design.
This is evident when taking the design of monuments, because they deal with the assimilation of technological resources and processes display information; there a concern about its use beyond its traditional commemorative function. This is evident in that each has certain operating rules that articulate their position on the public space, which is conceived as the field of citizenship, and the struggle for symbolic power. The monuments are presented or violate conventional norms that characterize the monuments in general, for example some around for the convenience of the moment, and the ideology of the day. And others are created to interact with people who consume them, as the monument with microphone for those who have no voice, or that is dedicated to the mass divided.
These monuments do not mention (or presentizan) historical situations such as wars and battles, momentous, or construct imaginary characters. Do not respond to a specific discourse. Can be used by any party or political campaign strategy. Change depending on the situation, mobile, variables, transportable deterritorialized, define themselves (because they can self-define as the trend) is thus open the way can be interpreted and appropriated by those who watch them. Not define a specific political or institutional position, and this supports their inclusion in different contexts.
Juan Carlos León, and Ana Rosa Valdez
Guayaquil, March 2011
Photo by Leonidas Corozo
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