This sketch of a map of the world-nation-state-home-iPhone is a first attempt to get something down on paper for this assignment.
I would have - probably colored - lines of connection to show the various steps. I would add the element of time by varying the intensity of the images with the most recent being the most intense. I will add text to chart out the progression though time and will also vary the intensity of the text depending on the elapsed time. Will it be temporal?
3 comments:
Rick,
Your questions about auditinga class are closer to the heart of the world we live in. It is no longer my world or your world, it is OUR world in the biggest of ways. Yes, this course is available to anyone to take, as all information is available to anyone who works hard enough to go out and get it. Working hard is a way to find answers, pursue new ideas and ask interesting questions. I am interested in seeing your research, reading, road trip, etc. manifest themselves into a set of images / graphics / diagrams, etc. The hope is that we can learn how architects, in this case from all over the Country, can wrestel with these ideas. Graduate school, even the audited version, requires risks be taken.
Your sketch is a place to start. It raises preliminary questions of the relationship between our planet and the not so distant layer of technology floating above our heads. This is a novel approach within the studio. Tell us all more about it. Don't describe what your drawing would be; draw it the way we should see it.
What does it mean to have scads of electrical devices circling the Earth and tracking all our movement all of the time? Did you see today's NY Times? China is testing tracking devices, cards with chips in them, for about 12 million people. Is our identity effected by place? Is ones birth place as a formative layer in their individuality important any longer? Do these satelites simultaneously allow us to travel from place to place without missing an email, also build the infrastructure for place to no longer matter? Why is the lobster spot so important to you and how does it define what Maine is about? Are these regional elements at greater risk because Apple products give us greter mobility and their stores become ever more present?
Let us know if these things are important to you - let us know with your work.
Rick,
I am not a young fellow but I am not the oldest one an I can really understand many of the ideas you are writing down in you blog! I still working “by inertia”, I still doing my assignments with the feeling that I am “playing” grad school, all this this distance and the lack of faces is really “hurting” me!
I just feel like some told me something is missing…. (and this is the very interesting par that is been happening with me) … the roads that I am use to be…are different, and the “map is changing” ….. (please note that I say “map”!!!)
We need to be rewriting these maps as we go. I’m rewriting mine right now in the moment I am doing stuff that “just dose not feel right”, “this is too creasy / silly and will not work…this is teenager stuff” but I am changing paradigms!
Regarding your graphic I can understand your idea, but it will be great to have more details of what you are planning to do.
I look forward to see more of your work
Gus
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