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== XPUB 2  '''''<code>GRADUATION RESEARCH SEMINAR</code>''''' ==

== [[Renderdam|RENDERDAM]]_[YEAR].FORMAT ==

=== What? ===
A visual essay based on an inner/outer mono or dialogue I'm currently having considering the rendered imagery of Rotterdam used in both (simulator) games and future architectural concepts of Rotterdam.

=== Why? ===
I'm in confusion by the idea of vision / images of the city through virtual representation. Mostly, because I feel that is an image that lacks multiple layers of complex contexts:

Accessibility(concerning disability)

livability (concerning the housing crisis)

affordability(pushing away the inhabitants).

leisureability (queer / underground scenes / festivals / gigs / event)


I don't want it to be a EVERYTHING IS BAD kind of publication, though, more of a concern based... publication?

=== Workflow (two or three sentences) ===
Write down thoughts

Search for / collect imagery (make pictures, take screenshots, online posts, journalism)  and make compositions..


=== Timetable ===


<blockquote>''October:''

Read up on previously saved sources. Start sketching and writing thoughts down, collecting both sides.

''November:''

Think about the outcome. start the design and think of it either being a moving image, online or offline zine, a mocksite, etc.

Make a first draft for the first public moment. Maybe trigger a discussion. An anti-campaign. Parody? Satire?

''December:''

Continue and have something to show / discuss in Gent, to reflect in the project proposal and thesis outline. Have something of a 1,5-2 draft for the break to pick up after the winter break.</blockquote>



=== Relation to previous practice (two sentences, draw on Text on Practice) ===


In my Bachelors, I made two works pre and during covid in cinema4d<blockquote>{{Youtube | IneDIVf4mD8 }} </blockquote>Pre-covid // Concrete Desert, it was merely a mood based on a song and an exercises to make a certain idea into the landscape.

{{Youtube | 4lEF2tmydlk }}

while-covid // During my internship at SETUP Media Lab, I made a work based on this abstract sterile idea of a new normal. The definition remained variable based on the person talking about it. Yet still based on the bland life we lived back then I made this landscape to reflect upon this so called new normal-fear.

Municipality invests in anti-drug campaign by making new street signs that are puns based on drugs and streetnames.  https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6330231/cokesingel-lijnhaven-en-pillendijk-rotterdam-start-actie-tegen-drugsoverlast.html 

People stole the streetsigns. Just imagine all the funding going away that was invested in this very bad campaign. Not only was it bad because of the amount of ''subsidie'' that could have gone to i.e. a festival like Metropolis, which is 35 years old but doesn't get funded anymore. But also the common idea of the end user is responsible for the criminal circuit drugs go through, instead of legalizing and have it controlled. It is banished in general. 

This is a part of the Renderdam where the city wants to show how tough and edgy it was, but also eradicates that what makes it 'raw'. Cleansing the city of subcultures, nightlife, cultural events. 

https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/1900715/drugs-straatborden-nu-al-massaal-gestolen-west-snuifkade-hangt-al-in-studentenhuis
 


== DISABILITY SIMULATOR ==

=== What? (two sentences) ===
A game that mocks the visual representation of virtual environments in Games and City Planning/Branding. The Idea of simulation games cover either daily strife of a certain job or expertise, or a surreal / parody / fantasy driven game.

=== Why? (two sentences) [old version: How? but very similar to workflow] ===


In both the promise of new city planning as the concept of a simulator. In games: the person / character is (based on the conception of an) able bodied - I city planning, the mockups always consist of stock footage or 3d rendered.

=== Workflow (two or three sentences) ===
The idea is to first think about the gameplay(ux / ui) to use what kind of virtual environments this could take place in. Then pitch to people that work in the same fields of thoughts and others, for the sake of fair use and that doesn't unintentionally becomes a mocking of people with disabilities. And in the end make some sort of beta testing version and present that...?

=== Timetable ===
September to December could be an idea, since I am participating in <a href="https://constantvzw.org/site/Open-call-Worksession-a-Cane-Sticky-notes-Another-body.html"> '''Open call Worksession: a Cane, Sticky notes, Another body''' d/a> and I could test it then with the audience there. But to be honest this project could be more of a critical meme towards abovementioned projects.


=== Relation to previous practice (two sentences, draw on Text on Practice) ===


I made something in Unity years ago based on this

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdNogtlXQz/?img_index=1  https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKKCYDJ46m/

=== Choices made (two sentences) ===


None, yet...

== OBSESSIVE CATALOGUE OF MADNESS: SPIRITUAL MEDIA PSYCHOSIS ==
 {{:Spiritual media psychosis}}

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