Visual Literacy Research Programme
| dc.contributor.author | Romice, Ombretta | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-09T12:34:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-09T12:34:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | en |
| dc.description | Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The research programme is intended to examine what is meant by visual literacy, investigate the extent of public awareness in this field, and direct this knowledge towards an intensification of such awareness in order to deepen community understanding of, and involvement in, the process of design. Relevance for planning knowledge. The project seeks to contribute to the implementation of social and physical renewal strategies, by supporting the concepts of capacity building and empowerment. Capacity building is linked to the ideas of: - Education, as we believe, is the first step out of disadvantagel. - Participation is relevant as "significant changes in human behaviour can be brought about rapidly and efficiently only if the persons who are expected to change participate in deciding what the change shall be and how it shall be made" (Sanoff 1992 iii). By providing education we wish to stimulate the only significant form of participation, the one connected to awareness and redistribution of power. Unless participation is linked to power of decision making, "it turns into and empty and frustrating process for the powerless. It allows the power holders to claim that all sides were considered but makes it possible only for some of these to benefit and maintains the status quo" (Arnstein 1969). | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 200-205 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2781 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | CC-BY | en |
| dc.source | Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway | en |
| dc.title | Visual Literacy Research Programme | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |