Suspension

the register of places and things

Abstract

This essay proposes the understanding of visual design as an expanded discipline that interacts with other fields of knowledge to provide space for different creative processes through an interdisciplinary approach. Based on this premise, it presents an outline and the initial poetic developments of a theoretical-practical investigation still under development in the Graduate Program in Design at the School of Fine Arts, UFRJ. Based on an exploratory methodology, the research investigates the imagery potential of photography in the creation of universes that stimulate the courage to try other modes of existence, as advocated by Michel Foucault. Based on hybridizations between analog production — photograms produced in an enlarger — and digital manipulation, it seeks to explore how the combination of different photographic records, with their most diverse meanings, can give rise to these utopian records. The aim is to propose another way of living through photography, to deepen the discussion and contribute to the expansion of correlations between the fields of photography, design, art and technology.