Communication of the senses in Brazilian cultural space: strategies of mediations and accessibility for people with their differences

• Grant number: 14/50531-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: October 01, 2014
• End date: September 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Museology
• Principal Investigator: Viviane Panelli Sarraf
• Grantee: Viviane Panelli Sarraf
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research regarding the communication of the time senses in Brazilian cultural spaces: strategies of mediations and accessibility for people with their differences, discusses communication strategies that utilize the senses as touch, hearing, smell, vision, synesthesia, kinesthesia, proprioception and taste in cultural Brazilians spaces, considering its importance to the cultural inclusion of individuals, especially people with disabilities who are least benefited by their different ways of perception, mobility and communication. Based on the justification that visual communication is losing the ability to seduction the individual, were presented and analyzed theories and cases of sensory cultural communication, which can serve an example for the development of a communication theory of the five senses in cultural spaces. As results of the study were pointed reflections and ways to bring the practice of sensory communication for cultural area. (AU)