User:Michel W/SPECIAL ISSUE🥀24

I.April

Special Issue🎶

❋ ON LOITERING and other forms of in-situ computation ❋

The joy of living in a city?

On April 15th, we were at the Zuidplein Public Library, conducting observations around the area. I stayed in the shopping mall with Wang and Victor, who were next to the library. I noticed I'm easily captivated by unique shapes and prints. It was a peaceful observation time as I sat on the bench and watched people walking around. After that, I lingered in the shopping mall for a while. Sometimes I feel insecure when people just stand around, which reminded me of the article we read in the first Monday class, "Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets."

However, the struggle against violence and the quest for pleasure cannot be separate things. The quest for pleasure actually strengthens our struggle against violence, framing it in the language of right rather than protection. The 'right to pleasure' must always include 'the right to live without violence'.

Screen shot from the "Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets" by Shilpa Phadke & Sameera Khan & Shilpa Ranade

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There are 3 lists I've made with two different methods to observe things.Shapes, patterns/prints. To me, I'm passionate about visualize things and create weird and wonderful combination thought this process :)

Patterns that I found

⭑Shapes:

• white rectangle blocks on the ceiling

• yellow double circle shape window on the door where you can see outside

• Black & white chicken head shape store sign

• Double circle of store sign with green light

• Strange shape banana boat plate and ice cream on a menu

• Flower shape button

• Black & white arrow store sign

⭑Patterns:

• Weird poses models, raising their hands that look like a line pattern

• The closing door - has horizontal and vertical line patterns

• The metal on the ground

• Optical store sign

⭑People wearing patterns, walking in the mall:

• A baby girl with grey and orange flowers pattern

• A woman with b&w check long coat

• A girl with b&w dots T shirt

• A grandma with flowers pattern print shirt

• A woman brings a leopard tote bag

• A flower patterns of lamp at Meeting point

• A zebra print with yellow light at Meeting point

• A girl wears blue and white stripe pants

• A person wears yellow snake skin pattern flare pants

Things I have connections with on the street near Blaak area: Lavender transparent fabric covered on the construction building and Wabi-Sabi aesthetic mottled ceiling.

❋ Apr.22 ❋

I. outside: Eixogen (location-based game) trail demo by Louisa

https://eixo.codes/

II. Trying others scripts and loitering:

⭑Prototype walk scripts:

T = Time 
L = Linger,loitering
C = counting shapes/patterns
1 = turn right
2 = turn left
3 = go straight 
M = relax
{
T = 15;
L = 3;
C = 5;
}
If (T < 15, C == 5, 1 + 1 + 3 = M) {
grab_a_nice_coffee
}
If (T=15, C == 8, 2 + 2 + 2 = M ) {
Find_a_quiet_place_to_sit
}
Else if (M == 3) {
go_home_and_sleep
}

Me and Zuzu found a tranquil trail when we were participating the Eixogen game at Rotterdam, Beukelsbrug / Van Nellefabriek bus stop.

Prototyping🎶

Microcontroller->Arduino

Experiment and play!

Methods🎶

❋SI24 Library❋

Project that May or May not be Made (PMoMM)

꧁Project(s) That May or May Not Be Made꧂

꧁Personal readers꧂

⭑Themes I am interested into (Feminism, queerness, body politics, cyborg, post-humanism, DIY, Feminist Avant-garde, Cyber feminism, craftivism.....etc.)

A Cyborg Manifesto

II.May

Special Issue⛸️

Psychogeography

Dérive

Theory of the Dérive

Learning About Cities by Mapping Their Smells

A map that captured Edinburgh’s smells on a very breezy day in 2011. Mapping smells is often linked to changes in weather conditions.

The artist Kate McLean has been trying to address these and other questions for the past seven years with her Sensory Maps project. In 2010, she began looking for ways to map landscapes based on sensory input. The first of these maps related to smell. She collected comments about smell from people in different parts of Edinburgh, and transformed that into a visualization that had this amazing link to the environment, as smell often has to do with conditions like wind direction, rain, or changes in temperature. McLean calls such a visualization a “smellmap", which made up of colored spots and concentric lines that look like galaxies, is a visual synthesis of the different experiences reported by smellwalkers,

Apophenia

Prototyping⛸️

Methods⛸️

III.June

Special Issue🎶

Prototyping🎶

Methods🎶