My map of Auckland consists of 3 layers, it can be read front on and sectionally.
Layer 1 - is a map of Auckland city, and is used to map out the points where those who have been contacted are at the time of contact
Layer 2 - is a the same of Auckland city, but is used to map out the point where my flat mate was at the time of contact
Layer 3 - is a map of the world, and is used to map out the points where those have been contacted outside of Auckland city are at the time of contact
By viewing this data in section the volume and location of contact made is read instantly. It can be seen that each of us contacted those closest to us notably more than those who live far away.
By viewing this data from front on we can see the parts of Auckland used the most by us. You can easily make out where our flat and university are.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Exhibition Blurb
Mass communication and information has changed the situation of the city. We need new ways of mapping to document and understand the continually changing world we live in.
Technology has made most places in world easily accessible. Our messages can arrive at almost any place instantaneously, in a sense removing all relevance of distance and time.
These invisible means of communication are creating a new sense of place. They make physical space only one of the places we can be in any one instant. This must have some effect on architecture; the solid becomes permeable, walls no longer form a barrier.
Over the course of a week I collected data from each of my flat mates. They recorded every person they text, phoned, emailed or face booked during that time.
By sandwiching the world to express the instant connection between places, I linked all of these points of communication.
Ironically, though these technologies do give us the opportunity to keep in contact with friends and family around the world, and though we all did use this technology to contact people internationally, the people we contacted the most were each other!
At the very least, what does this say about flat as a place? Some days we probably have more conversations through our cell phones then around our kitchen table.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Further to our discussion
My preliminary collection of data proved I need to adjust my project. I gave each of my flat mates a log book where they were to record all the connections they made in a week. In it, they were to write:
who - they communicated with and their relationship to the person
how - they communicated with them (cellphone, internet, telephone)
when - they communicated with them (date and time)
where - they person the communicated with lives
duration - of the call or number of texts or emails sent
I was expecting to collect data that would show how we use these new forms of communication to keep in contact with those far away, but the data did not agree. Most of the contact made was between people living the same city (and even the same house!).
There are 2 ways I can move forward.
1 - To collect data from a different range of people (different ages, jobs, locations), and see if this if the data alters because of these different living conditions.
2- To concentrate on mapping my flat mates and showing the interconnectivity of a mini-network of people. (I like this idea and because there are 2 other people mapping some aspect of my flat mates it will be interesting to see how our maps link up)
I prefer option 2 because I think I will be able to explore and understand this data in more depth. I hope by mapping this niche collection of people I will still be able to question the effect invisible connections are having on architecture.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Invisible Transmissions - Chris Speed
A live visualisation of email activity into a building at the University of Plymouth. Special software was used to check the recipients email ‘inbox’ and record the names of people who have sent an email to an occupant.
The senders name was linked to their physical location on campus (using a phone directory), then their office was architecturally simulated and flown into the scene and attached to the recipient's office.
This is an interesting way to display email activity and is beginning to address the non-physical nature of this type of communication
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_12RomtiZ8
The senders name was linked to their physical location on campus (using a phone directory), then their office was architecturally simulated and flown into the scene and attached to the recipient's office.
This is an interesting way to display email activity and is beginning to address the non-physical nature of this type of communication
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_12RomtiZ8
How I plan to map
GATHERING DATA
I will survey a a group of people of varying ages. I will go through the contacts they have in their email account, cell phone and facebook(or equivalent) and record where each of the contacts are from.
I will also have a rating system for each contact listed to record how close the person feels towards the contact, and how up to date they feel they are with what the contact has been doing.
MAPPING
At this stage I think my map will have to be 3D, because I want to display the shifting scale between the physical distances between places versus the instantaneous connection made through the internet. I want to show the disfiguring of the physcial world (the removal of distance and time).
With the use of colour or material I will show the various types of relationships the person I am interviewing has wth their contacts.
I hope to create a map that means more than this
I will survey a a group of people of varying ages. I will go through the contacts they have in their email account, cell phone and facebook(or equivalent) and record where each of the contacts are from.
I will also have a rating system for each contact listed to record how close the person feels towards the contact, and how up to date they feel they are with what the contact has been doing.
MAPPING
At this stage I think my map will have to be 3D, because I want to display the shifting scale between the physical distances between places versus the instantaneous connection made through the internet. I want to show the disfiguring of the physcial world (the removal of distance and time).
With the use of colour or material I will show the various types of relationships the person I am interviewing has wth their contacts.
I hope to create a map that means more than this
I like this map book made by 'the very day', it shows the physicality of the world (when the book is closed), but there is also room to show different sorts of connections through the cross sections.
Mapping Connections
Stan Allen said “Traditional representation (of a city) presumes stable objects and fixed subjects. But the contemporary city is not reducible to an artifact. The city today is a place where visible and invisible streams of information, capital and subjects interact in complex notations”… “In order to sustain its own relevance, architecture needs to address to social and political implications of the shift from (technology as an) artifact to an effect”
Mass communication and information has changed the situation of the city. We need to find new ways of mapping to document and understand the constantly changing world we live in.
The heart and soul of a city is not its physical state, but the social, political and cultural actions of its inhabitants.
Aureli said “The reduction of the city to an abstract background also serves to indicate its susceptibility to change, to transformation, to technical adaptation, to the becoming of urban space, as opposed to the fixity of the architectural form.”
It is the things moving and happening that create a city. It is these properties of the city that need to be considered and understood by architects. I’m particularly interested in human relationships within a place.
Thinking about place is interesting when considering how technology has made the world a lot closer and accessible. Our messages can arrive at almost any place instantaneously, in a sense removing all relevance of distance and time. As Pascucci said “there is now a greater accessibility by many publics to a variety of places because of a fluidity between physical and virtual architectures”
The internet not only connects us to other places, it is also creates a sense of place itself.
Wortham-Galvin writes that the internet is as much a place as any physical place. “Place are both real and imagine: they depend on mental association as well as physical shape and character”…“Because places are defined by the imagination of many, they occupy a realm that cannot be properly judged in terms of authenticity”…“Should place making be about the purity of a space, or about the relationship people have with, within, through and beyond it?”… “Contrary to high culture, belief, television and the internet is not less authentic, less public of any less of a place than physical forms and spaces”
Pascussi said “space is not an ‘absolute precondition for authentic public life” or placemaking”
These invisible means of communication are creating a new sense of place. It makes physical space only one of the places we can be at any one time. This must have some effect on architecture; the solid becomes permeable, walls no longer form a barrier to where we wish to connect. We can go shopping and be in a shop without physically being there. How far will this develop?
Chris Speeds talks about this in his thesis for his PHD, and discusses how architecture hasn’t really kept up with developing social systems, and that it needs to be associated with these if it wants to continue to develop with the internet.
I am interested in mapping the various places people are connected to through invisible means of communication, and what effect the ability to make these connections has on human relations.
I plan to map where connections are made through the use of internet and cell phones, and the relationship with the contact.
Weelden wrote that “Mapping the internet poses numerous problems. The challenge is not just that it contains a staggering amount of extremely complex, rapidly changing information, but also that is exists nowhere and yet operates simultaneously in the physical world “
The internet has a “loose and flexible relationship to the physical world”
So I like the idea of mapping connections made between two people to introduce something ‘real’ (real plans are made or real emotions are felt) to the project.
I hope that this mapping project will start to investigate the increasing accessibility to different places in Auckland, New Zealand, and the World. I also hope it will start to demonstrate the effect (positive or negative) it is having on our personal relationships. What will happen as more and more human relationships become invisible. What will this mean for architecture and urban design? A disfiguring of the physical world?
Wortham-Galvin wrote “As the world becomes more mediated by the ubiquity of the scrims of digital visual communication, place making will depend ever more on the interdependence of the physical and the mental – of the made and the imagined”
Mass communication and information has changed the situation of the city. We need to find new ways of mapping to document and understand the constantly changing world we live in.
The heart and soul of a city is not its physical state, but the social, political and cultural actions of its inhabitants.
Aureli said “The reduction of the city to an abstract background also serves to indicate its susceptibility to change, to transformation, to technical adaptation, to the becoming of urban space, as opposed to the fixity of the architectural form.”
It is the things moving and happening that create a city. It is these properties of the city that need to be considered and understood by architects. I’m particularly interested in human relationships within a place.
Thinking about place is interesting when considering how technology has made the world a lot closer and accessible. Our messages can arrive at almost any place instantaneously, in a sense removing all relevance of distance and time. As Pascucci said “there is now a greater accessibility by many publics to a variety of places because of a fluidity between physical and virtual architectures”
The internet not only connects us to other places, it is also creates a sense of place itself.
Wortham-Galvin writes that the internet is as much a place as any physical place. “Place are both real and imagine: they depend on mental association as well as physical shape and character”…“Because places are defined by the imagination of many, they occupy a realm that cannot be properly judged in terms of authenticity”…“Should place making be about the purity of a space, or about the relationship people have with, within, through and beyond it?”… “Contrary to high culture, belief, television and the internet is not less authentic, less public of any less of a place than physical forms and spaces”
Pascussi said “space is not an ‘absolute precondition for authentic public life” or placemaking”
These invisible means of communication are creating a new sense of place. It makes physical space only one of the places we can be at any one time. This must have some effect on architecture; the solid becomes permeable, walls no longer form a barrier to where we wish to connect. We can go shopping and be in a shop without physically being there. How far will this develop?
Chris Speeds talks about this in his thesis for his PHD, and discusses how architecture hasn’t really kept up with developing social systems, and that it needs to be associated with these if it wants to continue to develop with the internet.
I am interested in mapping the various places people are connected to through invisible means of communication, and what effect the ability to make these connections has on human relations.
I plan to map where connections are made through the use of internet and cell phones, and the relationship with the contact.
Weelden wrote that “Mapping the internet poses numerous problems. The challenge is not just that it contains a staggering amount of extremely complex, rapidly changing information, but also that is exists nowhere and yet operates simultaneously in the physical world “
The internet has a “loose and flexible relationship to the physical world”
So I like the idea of mapping connections made between two people to introduce something ‘real’ (real plans are made or real emotions are felt) to the project.
I hope that this mapping project will start to investigate the increasing accessibility to different places in Auckland, New Zealand, and the World. I also hope it will start to demonstrate the effect (positive or negative) it is having on our personal relationships. What will happen as more and more human relationships become invisible. What will this mean for architecture and urban design? A disfiguring of the physical world?
Wortham-Galvin wrote “As the world becomes more mediated by the ubiquity of the scrims of digital visual communication, place making will depend ever more on the interdependence of the physical and the mental – of the made and the imagined”
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Mapping the Internet
Barrett Lyon -Opte ProjectLimited use - shows the growth of the internet
Ryze Blog Tribe - Friends NetworkLimited Use - Doesn't describe the relationships
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