Mapping Emergence 2012: The Outcomes « Mapping Emergence: Nomads, Nodes, Strings & Paths
http://mappingemergence.wordpress.com/mapping-emergence-2012-the-outcomes/ Mapping Emergence: Past, Present, Future Mapping Emergence has been an ambitious project, as it involved complicated concepts and challenges expanding into an interdisciplinary research field. The outcomes have been highly successful & innovating in many ways, proposing key developments in response to important opportunities and challenges that characterise contemporary architecture, urbanism and interaction design. The main focus of the project has been the relationship between flows and spaces as necessitating new spatial research strategies for advancing contemporary architecture and spatial praxis across a number of disciplines (Spatially Augmented Reality, smart architecture, cyber-theory, software engineering, site-specific art, performance, etc.). Nomad Strata proposes hybrid spaces that alter the uses of the Trafalgar Square as well as its city and world-wide relationships. They combine weather-responsive canopies, pressure-sensitive tiles for generating energy – making a self-sustainable system - and creating social spaces through the fractal-like physical adjustments of the Square’s ‘floor grid’ depending on the size and activities of the public. Visual and textual information generated by visitors at the spot is projected from the Nelson’s column to the Square ‘floor’ and playfully combined. A ‘city dashboard’ with information on the traffic, weather, pollution etc., is shown when the system is ‘idle’. Reversals between the interiors of the National Gallery and the Square with 3D projections facilitate a visual interplay of histories, uses, experiences and associations. Such interventions would also create hubs of common knowledge resources for fostering creative cultural exchange and activities. The Square can be thus experienced as a performative surface. As a research outcome, Nomad Strata is highly successful as it constitutes a pioneering design tool, a method and an intervention strategy for contemporary architecture, urban & interaction design. The processes can be replicated and adapted to other locations worldwide. Nomad Strata intervenes into the city fabric not simply for making the invisible visible but to do so through new types of architecture and performative urban design, challenging past uses and the status of iconic localities and the passive role of the public, while opening up new opportunities for change. Mapping Emergence has enabled participants to evaluate how their vision of and engagement with the city have changed, to position and evaluate their work both in terms of process and outcome, and most importantly, to carry forward the challenges and possibilities that stemmed from their participation in the workshop. As acknowledged by the participants, the project enabled them to gain a different understanding of datascape, space, place, interaction design, urbanism and architecture, inspiring challenging and innovative contributions towards advancing architectural research and practice and setting the foundations for undertaking Doctoral research in this field. As stemming from the assessment of the outcomes during the participants’ Workshop Presentation, as well as from participants and attendees’ interest and enthusiastic feedback at the Urban Transcripts 2012 Conference (UCL) the project outcomes have been of high quality and of promising potential for future expansion. -- ---> A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield Gallery – Finsbury Park (London). http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
