Listen to the following video, where do you go?
Sound has the ability to take us to a virtual 'place'.
Sound has the ability to take us to a virtual 'place'.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
My Mapping Project: Routes, routines and what we hear...
I want to map the paths of individuals to see the dominant routes they take through Auckland. In doing so I hope to see how limited our mental maps are.
I want my mapping project to consider how our individual understanding of our city has become a routine. By doing so I want to provoke us to consider how we might like to break away from this routine and in turn discover new things and even better routes.
I do not want to just map the routes taken by individuals, I want to go beyond the visible to the invisible aspects of our contemporary city. In order to do so I would like to include sound as a sensory element.
Whilst making the journey home from university the other day, taking what is certainly my dominant route through the city, my mental map, I considered the importance of sound in placing and locating ourselves. Sound is an invisible, often forgotten and neglected aspect of our contemporary city. Yet sound can tell someone much about our personal geography, sound has the ability to give a sense of time, space and place.
Consider if the visual component of a person’s route is removed but the sound remains, what story does the sound tell us? Can we tell what time it is? Are we inside or outside? How many people surround us?
By mapping the paths of individuals using audio I hope to discover if certain routes of our contemporary city are able to be distinguished by sound. I wonder if rather than locating ourselves by using the tangible, that is the built world, we are able to find our way by using the intangible, in this case sound.
I want my mapping project to consider how our individual understanding of our city has become a routine. By doing so I want to provoke us to consider how we might like to break away from this routine and in turn discover new things and even better routes.
I do not want to just map the routes taken by individuals, I want to go beyond the visible to the invisible aspects of our contemporary city. In order to do so I would like to include sound as a sensory element.
Whilst making the journey home from university the other day, taking what is certainly my dominant route through the city, my mental map, I considered the importance of sound in placing and locating ourselves. Sound is an invisible, often forgotten and neglected aspect of our contemporary city. Yet sound can tell someone much about our personal geography, sound has the ability to give a sense of time, space and place.
Consider if the visual component of a person’s route is removed but the sound remains, what story does the sound tell us? Can we tell what time it is? Are we inside or outside? How many people surround us?
By mapping the paths of individuals using audio I hope to discover if certain routes of our contemporary city are able to be distinguished by sound. I wonder if rather than locating ourselves by using the tangible, that is the built world, we are able to find our way by using the intangible, in this case sound.
Sociologist Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe
De Lauwe mapped the movements of a student made over one year. Her itinerary formed a small triangle with no significant deviations showing the narrowness of the city in which each individual lives out their lives.What to map? Why to map? And how to map it?
The arrival of mass communication and information technology has changed the condition of the city.
Stan Allen asks us to accept the reality of this new condition and creatively reinvent the traditional tools of notation (mapping) in order to meet these new challenges
Mapping has emerged in the information age as a means to make the complex accessible, the hidden visible, the unmappable mappable. It has become a way of making sense of things!
Janet Abrams and Peter Hall describe mapping as the 'conceptual glue' linking the tangible with the intangible.
Therefore I want my mapping project (my notation) to go beyond the visible to the invisible aspects of our contemporary city.
Consider what gets missed in our preoccupation with traditional mapping techniques?
Stan Allen asks us to accept the reality of this new condition and creatively reinvent the traditional tools of notation (mapping) in order to meet these new challenges
Mapping has emerged in the information age as a means to make the complex accessible, the hidden visible, the unmappable mappable. It has become a way of making sense of things!
Janet Abrams and Peter Hall describe mapping as the 'conceptual glue' linking the tangible with the intangible.
Therefore I want my mapping project (my notation) to go beyond the visible to the invisible aspects of our contemporary city.
Consider what gets missed in our preoccupation with traditional mapping techniques?
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Derive - Drifting upwards...
What wonderous things do we miss out on if we are only ever looking down?
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