Technogeography: rearrangements in cognitive ecologies and politics

• Autor(a) principal: Maraschin, Cleci
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Baum, Carlos, Teles, Fernando, Roos, Renata
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fractal : Revista de Psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/5128
• topic: technogeography; enacton; gps-based game; cognitive ecology politics; tecnogeografia; enação; jogo de localização; ecologias e políticas cognitivas; Tecnologias e espaços urbanos; cognição; jogos de localização

This is an intervention research intended to analyze a gps-based game named “A day at the Botanical Garden”, designed for children and teenagers at Porto Alegre’s Botanical Garden. By using the game as a research instrument, we meant to investigate the articulations of actions and perceptions it makes possible as players explore the hybrid garden-game space. Such empirical field is herein understood as a technogeographic space, locally arranged and able to offer patterns of consistency to the existence of objects and their relations, being simulteneaously real and fictional. We therefore consider the game as a designed experience that participates in the way perceptions and explorations emerge in a public space; as well as the cognitive ecologies and politics it might enable. By conducting a series of workshops with the game, we could track the rearrangements in players’ cognitive politics and rethink the concept of designed experienced applied to gps-based games.