Design and body on the internet: a reading on opuscorpus website

• Grant number: 06/00667-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2006
• End date: February 28, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Industrial Design - Visual Programming
• Principal Investigator: Wilton Garcia Sobrinho
• Grantee: Vinícius Freire Soares
• Host Institution: Diretoria de Pesquisa e Extensão. Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (UAM). Instituto Superior de Comunicação Publicitária (ISCP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project of scientific initiation - as integrant part of the directory research Design, body, image and technology: studies contemporaries – studies design and body relation, from the website opuscorpus - anthropology of the corporal appearances http://incubadora.fapesp.br/sites/opuscorpus /, having as surrounding the net and as tool the hypermedia.The relation design and body, here, will be established by means of a descriptive reading, that it standes out project elements (iconographics). In this perspective, the present project approaches some notations about the iconography of the website opuscorpus, a time that the relation design and body, in the contemporary, is treated in its had relevance with image and technology, today.The procedure theoretician-methodology for this inquiry will be the contemporary studies, which associates cultural studies with the new technologies. Or either, the conceptual base of the contemporary studies takes in the concern with the technological development, marked for the visual dimension of image. The result of this research project establishes a reflective transit in the knowledge production, as transdisciplinar character with others discursive practics of the design field. (AU)