Da invisibilização à visualização: interfaces para compreensão de transformações espaço-temporais

Abstract

This article is supported by a research that aims discussing the possibilities of visualization interfaces’ use to comprehend spatial transformations over the time. Besides classical academic and professional purposes we intend expand the ordinary citizen’s capacity of understanding spatial phenomena by means visualization. In this regard, the paper discuss some visualization experiments in Belo Horizonte, city in which a process of almost complete invisibilization of the urban waters has occurred. First, we present a brief history of the actions that resulted in this invisibilizations’ frame and, consequently, in environmental damages to the Belo Horizonte’s environment. Second, we discuss the use of visualization spatialtemporal data’s tools as a device capable of broadening the understanding of space occupation processes, especially some new forms of space occupation's interpretation over time. In addition, we point out the main obstacles faced by such a work, that is, the challenge of building History from images and also the prospection’s problem in itself, that is, searching, recording and, above all, assembling images. Third, we present some of our preliminary experiments on the construction of interfaces for visualization of spatial transformations in Belo Horizonte.