Thursday, October 6, 2011

INTERNET SITE.





Loading page :



1.
Then apperas the only thing of the site : a grid. The whole idea is to create a grid where all units are different types of informations.
here is an abstract of the idea :


When moving the mouse on the grid, informations appear : for emample inred here, you can read the name by pointing the mouse on a portrait.
There are 7 lines, seven types of information : people, collectives, institutions, projects, competences, ideas, steps. We may chat to know if we want more information, relative to time or location for example.




2.
When clicking on an info, you make the connected infos appear, and others disapear. Here, you click on a project and you know in one second the people, collectives, intitutions, competences, etc, involved in the project.




Then you can click on another info, and reduce the field. Here, you are looking for what has done the pointed collective in the project you selected before.



And so on...

If you tell yourself, how can you obtain such a perfect grid, without blanks, I'll tell you there will be empty cases, and when clicking on it you simply go to the form to fill.
Any other remarks?



Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Rory Hyde - Architecture for heightened social engagement

Architecture has to do something, to change something; it has to be an active participant. It has to encourage a heightened social engagement.

By aligning itself as an aesthetic discipline – of appearance not space; of image not use; of icon over agenda; and of authority over community – architecture has become an abstract mute backdrop. There are plenty of moments in real life where social interaction explicitly relates to physical space: moving large pieces of furniture, riding a see-saw, getting on a boat, going up a tall ladder (when someone has to hold the bottom), helping someone put on their coat, playing team sports, asking someone to take your photo, carrying the shopping with someone, etc. Could these be the source for a kind of socially engaged design?

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http://roryhyde.com/blog/?p=283



MASS



Exhibition - MoMA

Activism, a key concept to know wich are the collectives entering the research?






San Francisco's calling.




The KNOT

On the EXPERIMENTDAYS book table i've found a very promising piece:



The KNOT
An Experiment on Collaborative Art in Public Urban Space

Links that go with this discovery:

Well, lot's of work to clean up once I'm back from Istanbul.

Enjoy yourselves!

Jon