Maucx: proposta de dispositivo de mediação entre museu e cidade

Abstract

This project starts at Museu de Arte da Universidade Federal do Ceará mauc and its communication with the public. Founded in 1961, it’s a historical museum and has in its collection artists who were part of Sociedade Cearense de Artes Plásticas scap, an entity responsible for diffusing modern art in the artistic scenery of Fortaleza during the 1940s. The research is based on concepts of art education, guided by Ana Mae Barbosa, reflecting on how the museum solidifies itself as an institution for informal education. It also brings cyber cities as a theme, coined by André Lemos, which use resources of the mobile technologies and locative media, such as augmented reality, to create a virtual layer where information is placed beyond the physical space of the city. Design strategies were applied to mediate the stories of the artists who make up the mauc collection and the city of Fortaleza, extending the notion of space which permeates between institutional, urban and virtual. maucx emerges as a mediation device which, through a graphic piece and an app, forms a system of visual information, illustrating the trajectory of the most relevant artists of Ceará and allowing their legacy to be accessed in a new layer of communication.