Tag: site-specific

Cultural HiJack: A Tour of the Building

Process: I wanted to criticize space and my class challenged me on how self-righteous it came across. In frustration, I realized that what I wanted to do was explore Heimbold through my emotions and my memories. It is a micro-situation…

Mapping the Invisible: Visionary Post Mortem

We agreed on the idea of playing with elevation and maze. Our site is Marshall Field. Since the site is surrounded by different elevations(people can sort of see the place from the back door of Heimbold) The viewers are able…

Mapping the Invisible: Revolutionaries — (Counterrevolutionary Splinter Group?): Post-Mortem

[The site seen from the main path] My marker offers a sort of communication in an otherwise unused space on campus, combining dissonant elements such as the technology of the QR code compared to the simple wood. Additionally, the QR…

Mapping the Invisible: Surrealists — Post Mortem

We have visualised the methods of our ‘identity’ in three ways: firstly we drew attention to the most surreal thing in the space – the emergency pole; secondly we used the nature of a line to break up depth, distance…

Mapping the Invisible: Flaneur — Post-Mortem

Our group visualized our identity as the Flaneur in several ways. First, we wanted our work to embody the wandering qualities of the Flaneur by creating different visual attractions to guide the eye in a wandering fashion around the landscape….

Mapping the Invisible: Stalkers — Post Mortem

For our space, we chose make our sculpture more interactive by focusing on the vibe of the stalker rather than a specific, targeted act of stalking itself. Instead of designing a sculpture to be fixed on observing a particular place…

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 — 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-Exploration — Lynd Mulch Patch

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 Group

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