Quimun.Net-Plataforma Multimedia

Abstract

The purpose of this Final Degree Project was to apply concepts, techniques and learnings developed in the Audiovisual Artistic Design career in the creation and launch of a digital platform for the dissemination and construction of knowledge and cultural heritage, a multidisciplinary project that resulted in the design of the website quimun.net. It is a virtual multimedia space in a dynamic site format dedicated to the Mapuche culture, its worldview and symbolism; the characteristic symbols of its history, its meaning and re-signification and the validity of its ancestral wisdom. It is a digital tool that allows access to various portals whose contents cover different aspects of the Mapuche universe, making the materials resulting from research on the subject available to the public, incorporating audiovisual works of authorship and opening the possibility of adding new artistic and academic contributions. the free content dictionary in Castilian, quimúnokimün / kimvn, enidioma mapuzungunomapudungun, means knowledge, to know, to know or to know. It is also used in compound verbs, in which kimes is the first term and the second is an action that is known to be done or known; Some authors write it separately, as an invariable element. The choice of the .net extension corresponds to several factors. As it is a general-purpose platform, both web development and desktop programs or applications for mobile devices can be carried out. In addition, it favors multiplatform development, for example, the same application can run indistinctly on different mobile operating systems such as IOS, Android or Windows Phone, guaranteeing communication between different devices. On the other hand, building applications using .net decreases the development time of projects, allows designers to carry out an import project and adaptation to the needs instead of a development from scratch, 4simplifies the maintenance of applications and reduces costs due to the reduction of development and maintenance times. On the other hand, a commercial profile was not sought or limited only to the national scope, that is why .comni.com was not chosen. arsino .net, which proposes a universal scope. At the beginning, a literary style title was thought with the intention of suggesting a relationship between the journeys through the physical territory and the user's virtual journey through the sections and categories of the site: “The path of the witches ”, alluding to the wise bearers of the ancestral legacy and the journeys that nomadic groups made through the inhospitable Patagonian steppes, leaving the footprints and“ trace ”of their culture in the caves and stone eaves of the hills and canyons. However, given the negative connotations, within the community, of the concept of "witch" associated more with something dark and harmful than with the or shamanic or spiritual of the term, it was decided to change the title and look for other words in Mapuzungun that would convey the purpose of the project and the specific theme of the website, in addition to a quality, both visual and sound, of intensity similar to the conceptual and philosophical load that will promote the creation of this multimedia tool. Although the idea of ​​virtual travel and physical territory was maintained, the name of the website was changed to quimun.net, as a more comprehensive concept and with a direct connotation that refers to current legacy knowledge and culture, preserving the subtitle: “a virtual journey in the territory of an ancestral knowledge. ”The multiple treatment that the diversity of the proposal implies makes it possible to expose and take advantage of the options offered by digital platforms as tools to strengthen the links between communities. For example, on a website, it is possible to show both the evolution of a project and the investigations and searches that involve the construction of an audiovisual narrative or a particular theme. In the development of the project, different theoretical and technical aspects incorporated into it were applied. throughout the curriculum of the Degree in Audiovisual Artistic Design. 5From the beginning of the collection of antecedents and records, the challenge posed by dissemination and the eventual interest that the work could motivate in universes such as popular knowledge and even more, its application in educational settings was faced. This gaze implied the construction of transversal, lasting and significant concepts, not only for the original communities but also for all types of users, which would give a contextual meaning to the set of materials resulting from the f