Informação no espaço público: conceitos e prática para democratização da informação

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, André Pinto dos
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/17327
• topic: Área(s) do conhecimento do documento (Tabela CNPq); Tecnologia digital; mídia cívica; intervenção urbana; instalação digital; engajamento cívico; subject.br-rjbn

New digital technologies have been increasingly making people's daily lives easier, but, at the same time, they have been overshadowing the city's protagonism as a space for sociability, information exchange and cultural expression. Technological conventions make it possible to experience the public domain without the need to leave the private domain, resulting in an emptying of the city as a forum for debate and being a depoliticizing factor in society. However, digital technologies can be a tool for reversing this movement, when used to disseminate information and build collective intelligence. In recent times, society has experienced a new set of media, technologies, software, and practices that have the potential to change the way people experience the city. Thus, the use of these technologies can result in dialogical, democratic, and transparent communication, based on the engagement of information, acting as civic communications that address the city's problems in a clear and accessible way. Based on this premise, this work set out to explore a way to make information accessible using digital technology, to establish clear communication about urban data in public space, through urban interventions. To do this, we used a literature review on the process of converting data into information and ways of communicating it, civic engagement as a form of social empowerment and urban interventions that use digital technology in artistic manifestations to inform the population about urban issues. These interventions use interactivity and playfulness to inform, creating platforms for people to engage with information in the public space. Based on the theoretical survey, a digital installation prototype was developed to visualize data about motor vehicle accidents with pedestrians in the cities of Cariacica, Serra, Vila Velha and Vitória, which make up Greater Vitória, in the metropolitan area of Espírito Santo. With the practical experiment of taking information to public space, it was possible to verify, based on users' responses, that the experience of viewing data from a digital installation was positive, there was effectiveness in transmitting information, and the prototype proved to be a capable way of generating people's engagement around information on urban problems.