Visual literacy and pattern configuration as design paradigm: How visual rhetoric can be used to define social and cultural identity

Ted Carden, Susan Carden

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    Abstract

    This paper correlates the areas of comparability on an historical ethnographic juxtaposition of traditionally pieced pattern-making as inherent and encoded social statement, reflected in the eco-cultural identities of two distinct populations from enforced ethnic cleansing and mass migration, and assesses the impact of the initial loss of national pride as enforced upon the oppressed communities, and emphasizes the high importance of retained ethnic identity and cultural heritage for the future as a mnemonic stratagem expressed through visual rhetoric, intrinsically, we uphold Dewey's view that art "expresses the life of a community", and hold these defining subjective priorities as directives for future heritage descriptors. "Every human being lives within a determinate 'cultural pattern' and interprets his or her experience according to a set of acquired forms," states Umberto Eco, in The Open Work (1989).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Internet & Multimedia Systems & Applications with Special Sessions on Visual Communications
    Place of PublicationAnaheim, California
    PublisherACTA Press
    Pages612-807
    Number of pages228
    ISBN (Print)978-0889867277
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 2008
    EventInternet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2008) - Innsbruck, Austria
    Duration: 1 Mar 2008 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceInternet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2008)
    Period1/03/08 → …

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