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mirada dinámica

English translation: active viewing


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Spanish term or phrase:mirada dinámica
English translation:active viewing
Entered by: ClaraVal
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12:11 Aug 17, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Architecture / Art gallery architecture
Spanish term or phrase: mirada dinámica
Hello. The text is about the renovation of an eighteenth-century building, now an art gallery:

"Hay además un deseo evidente de potenciar una mirada dinámica en el espectador, no sólo para disfrutar de las colecciones que presenta el museo, sino también del paisaje urbano que circunda al edificio"

The best I have come up with so far is "to encourage dynamic viewing by exhibition-goers", but this sounds a bit unnatural to me.

Going into UK English.

Thanks for your help
Simon
Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:52
active viewing
Explanation:
As opposed to passively wandering around the exhibition.

"...to engage visitors/exhibition-goers in active viewing, not only..."

Or, more closely to your original suggestion:
"to encourage active viewing by exhibition-goers..."
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ClaraVal
Spain
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Thanks everyone
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Summary of answers provided
3 +7active viewing
ClaraVal
5dynamic viewingxxxFVS
4to involve the viewer more
James A. Walsh
4to enhance the visitor experience
Kate Morrow
4to (better) engage the visitor visually
Jenni Lukac


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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
active viewing


Explanation:
As opposed to passively wandering around the exhibition.

"...to engage visitors/exhibition-goers in active viewing, not only..."

Or, more closely to your original suggestion:
"to encourage active viewing by exhibition-goers..."

ClaraVal
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks everyone

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Adcock: spot on :) though I would prefer "visitors" rather than "exhibition-goers"
3 mins
  -> Thank you, Jennifer :-)
agree  Jim Tucker
13 mins
  -> Thank you, Jim
agree  Michael Powers (PhD)
14 mins
  -> Many thanks, Mike
agree  MPGS: :)
1 hr
  -> Thanks! :-)
agree  Altogringo: Perhaps "engage visitors in an active viewing experience" as a phrasing option in the same vein
1 hr
  -> Thank you :-)
agree  philgoddard: Or active interaction.
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Phil :-)
agree  gallagy2
10 hrs
  -> Thank you :-)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
dynamic viewing


Explanation:
fineartamerica.com/profiles/clark-priftis-art.html - Cached
Clark Priftis Art. Baltimore, MD - United States. Clark Priftis Art - Fine Art ... our clients a unique and dynamic viewing experience upon every visit. ...

books.google.co.uk/books?id=XTPwK7_m1QgC...
No. 112 - 128 pages - Magazine
This dynamic viewing experience explores the idea that abstraction can also be ... stopped at the ICA Philadelphia and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. ...

ArtPower at UC San Diego Performing Arts Season 2010-2011 ... About The Loft Video Gallery The Loft Video Gallery is a dynamic viewing space located just ...

marineoilpaintings.blogspot.com/2011/03/dynamic-viewing.html - Cached
31 Mar 2011 – I just found out about the dynamic viewing feature introduced by Blogger. ... painters (particularly those working in oils) and for art lovers. ... Apologies for not providing more links to artist's and gallery websites. ...

linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0030399205001052
It represents the dynamic viewing conditions for the perception of image fading in the simulated daylight of an art gallery. ...

bombsite.com/issues/112/articles/3541 - Cached
Courtesy of Kouros Gallery, New York. George Negroponte's new work has substituted ... This dynamic viewing experience explores the idea that abstraction can also be narration. ... Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

louisebravermanarchitect.com/Test.swf
File Format: Shockwave Flash
Interior Design's August Art Issue Showcases The Derfner Judaica Museum ..... decision to design a dynamic viewing relationship between art objects and the ...

etc. etc.

xxxFVS
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to enhance the visitor experience


Explanation:
I believe this gets the point across, considering that 'dinamica' can represent a range of aspects in Spanish, whereas English demands something more concrete. Also in light of what follows (the visitor gets to experience what is on display against the backdrop of a beautiful surrounding environment). Hope this helps :)

Kate Morrow
Local time: 02:52
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Native speaker of: English
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to (better) engage the visitor visually


Explanation:
www.siteworx.com/Work/Featured-Work/PBS-PressroomThe episode pages feature the program brand that visitors expect along with episode information, press releases and photos to engage the visitor visually. ...; www.lakepowell.net/sciencecenter/exhibits.htmAll would be designed to visually engage the visitor and incorporate educational and thought provoking aspects of paleontology and inter-related fields of ...; www.martellomedia.com/reviews.htmlThe level of user interaction in the exhibits leaves the visitor with their own unique experience of the museum and engages the visitor in a visually ...

Jenni Lukac
Local time: 03:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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(potenciar una) mirada dinámica (en el espectador)
to involve the viewer more


Explanation:

There are some blatant redundancies in there if you ask me. This would be my approach here.

Interesting question.


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Note added at 10 hrs (2011-08-17 22:34:45 GMT)
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Or "spectator", even (rather than "viewer").


Example sentence(s):
  • Hay además un deseo evidente de potenciar una mirada dinámica en el espectador
  • Efforts have also been made to involve the viewer more

    Reference: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=%22Efforts+have+also+be...
    Reference: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=%22involve+the+viewer+m...
James A. Walsh
Spain
Local time: 03:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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