Month: April 2015

Mapping the Invisible: Site-Specific Plan – Revolutionary

We would hope that this would engage people to come into the space and interact with it and bring people into some sort of action. That inclusiveness is part of any revolutionaries goal. What is a QR Code? A QR…

Mapping the Invisible: Site Specific — Visionaries

We are imagining our psychogeographic figure as a series of triangular and rectangular prisms, constructed from welded steel rods. We will connect these prisms so as to form a chain across the grass. We will then selectively “fill” the sides…

Mapping the Invisible: Site Specific — Flaneur

We are imagining our psychogeographic figure in this way The concept of the flaneur centers around walking and looking. The flaneur is an observer of the crowd, whilst simultaneously being a part of the crowd. We are using this figure…

Mapping the Invisible: Site Specific — Criminals

We are imagining our psychogeographic figure in this way: Taking the role of the criminal by stealing the focus of the space, as well as stealing the resources and characteristics of the space, such as light and shape. We’re incorporating the concept…

Mapping the Invisible: Site-specific — Stalkers

We are imagining our psychogeographic figure in this way… We imagine the stalker as an distorted, attached, and elusive character whose behavior is fixed on a particular object or person. The stalker can blend in with society at large yet…

Mapping the Invisible: Visionary Sculpture

These are our basic ideas of several Mc Escher Cube we are designing right now.

Mapping the Invisible: Site Specific — Surrealists

We are imagining our psychogeographic figure as someone who both sees with the unconscious eye, and wishes to encourage others to do the same. As someone who is highly influenced by the desire to enter the dream-state and believes in…

Mapping the Invisible: Psychogeography — Surrealist

Five potential Psychogeograpic methods for exploring a space, in the spirit of surrealism: Retracing the path you took in a dream. Closing your eyes and trying not to walk in a spiral (as is your natural instinct). Going to everything that…

Bad Guys: Object Design

The enemy showcases three distinct states – dodging, advancing, and recharging. When it is not doing one of these three, its “idle” state is steadily moving back and forth and firing shots at a rhythmic pace. The enemy’s total health…

Mapping the Invisible: Psychogeography of the Visionary

1. Only walk through frames such as doorways, arches, awnings, etc. 2. Only walk uphill. 3. Walk only where others don’t. 4. Walk towards a fixed point until you can’t, then repeat. 5. Approach barriers, then jump over them. Repeat.

Mapping the Invisible: Site-Exploration — Lynd Mulch Patch

Mapping the Invisible: Self Portrait Draft #2 — A Map of Communication

Crit was really useful for me because I had no confidence in my map before I presented it to the class. I had actually planned on starting from scratch. So I’m thankful that the feedback I received was so encouraging….

Mapping the Invisible: Criminals — Site Preliminaries & Project Sketches

We want to incorporate the concept of light and darkness in our project, to represent criminality in our structure. We’re planning on using broken mirrors and glass, to manipulate and reflect the lights in our space. The space is transitional,…

Mapping the Invisible: Psychogeography — Revolutionary

The revolutionaries are considering the notion that’s imbedded in national history as “manifest destiny,” that is that land belongs to us to live is American lifestyle. We are interested in recontextualizing the landscape – beyond ownership, the assumption of the meaning…

Mapping the Invisible: Psychogeography — Stalker

List of methods that were used to traverse the campus: -Being completely concealed/hidden and observing the area/people surrounding -Following someone/something consistently (ex: a person walking out of bates, following a squirrel) -Immersing one’s self in a crowded area in order…

Mapping the Invisible: Psychogeography — Stalker Group

Mapping the Invisible: Psychogeography of the Flaneur

Group 2: Mariko, Mikey, Hillary, Rebecca On our derive we utilized some techniques that would be common for a flaneur. 1) Aimless strolling 2) Observing passersby 3) Following people and things that struck our interest 4) Participating in flows of…

Cultural HiJack: Psychogeography of Historians

Today the Historians walked around the campus, from spaces around Heimbold to Marshall Field to the space near Tweed. As we walked, we discussed the unique histories of the buildings and the landscapes. We walked around Heimbold, considering what materials…

Cultural HiJack: Invisible Histories

(Pictured above: Inspirational piece by Monica Canilao) Today our group brainstormed on-site, about how we could apply our role as “historians” to the area next to Marshall Field. Though we’re still in the drafting phase, we cobbled together a few ideas…

Mapping the Invisible: Flaneur Site Sketch