Official Code: | 9406 |
Acronym: | MDI |
Description: | Abstract The Master in Image Design acts upon a contemporary cultural and media universe where the image is put forward as the new unit of literacy and where its production and playback devices unfold in an increasingly complex range of possibilities. MDI is a multidisciplinary course furthering research in the areas of visual information, illustration, new media, documentary image, and the design of citizenship and social development. |
Edit | Concursos por Regime | Scheme | Vacancies | Deadlines |
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Entrada em 2º ciclos de estudo | Admission - 2nd cycle of studies admission | 20 | 2015-05-18 to 2015-06-19 | |
Entrada em 2º ciclos de estudo | Admission - 2nd cycle of studies admission | 20 | 2015-05-18 to 2015-06-19 |
With the Digital Culture CU we aim to endow the students with a broad perspective on the impact of the digital in society and culture, and to simultaneously provide mechanisms of analysis and reflection in order to establish a critical standpoint with operational characteristics.
This class intends to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge around the image (photograohy and cinema), and also explore the role of the image in projects of visual communication.
This course is dedicated to the study of computational systems and the design of the interactions with them.
Introduction to (audio) visual narratives theory and history.
Motivate different methods of analysis. Accentuate a critical and contextualized reading. Statement of an individual and creative discourse.
- In depth research methodologies to equip students in critical thinking about visual nature of projects to be undertaken during the semester;
- Research and validation of the image as contemporary unit literaci;
- Develop scientific interests that intersect with research projects able to provide us with a view of the world from a single regional or global standard, location, bringing a transmissible heritage of individual and collective memory; - Understanding of grammars related to the image in the contemporary context, both cultural as well as technological.