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== What do you want to make? == | == What do you want to make? == | ||
My project | My project ''Contextures'' will address multiple forms of accessibility in Rotterdam. | ||
The outcomes will include a game and a thesis. Both aspects of the project (the game and thesis) will address how obstacles are encountered in the city of Rotterdam.''Contextures'' arises from my frustrations with the hollow renders and and representations through which Rotterdam is presented. Traveling around the city of Rotterdam with my brother, who is in a wheelchair, has made me even more aware of the architectural, cultural and bureaucratic limits that define our movements. | |||
The project is divided into six elements, which will be incorporated into the game's format: Socially, Accessibly, Bureaucratically, Architecturally, Virtually and Culturally. In the game, the player* is presented with a series of obstacles which they have to overcome, while presented with i.e. an objective. | |||
- | Each of the six faces of the dice direct the player* to a particular field (Socially, Accessibly, Bureaucratically, Architecturally, Virtually and Culturally) which they must navigate. They are presented with pragmatic "real world" problems (which have been expressed by participants in the workshops I will organise). In the series of workshops and public moments, I will develop an infrastructure for counter-mapping and anti-campaigning. | ||
By campaign, I refer to city planning and campaigns I see around the city. But also campaigning in the sense to the franchise of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons?useskin=vector Dungeons and Dragons: Where a series of adventures is referred to as a "campaign". These campaigns are located in either non-fictional or fictional places.] | |||
The thesis will take the form of a series of annotated drawings. | |||
<nowiki>*</nowiki>player is meant as plural and also end user. | |||
== Why do you want to make it? == | |||
I am having mixed feelings about Rotterdam, the city I was born and raised in. A city that has been suffering the second city syndrome for a while and is on the list of poorest, least healthy. Having some sort of bad reputation based on multiple elements. Then resulting into trying to develop a better city, getting on the list of cool cities. Developing gentrification and seeming to be more (inter)nationally appealing cities. | |||
'''Rotterdam, Make It Happen''' is a campaign that focuses on developing the city but rather than focusing on the problems that the city has from the national housing crisis, poverty rates, social care conditions, narco-capital problems. | |||
This project is my experiment to develop an infrastructure based on constructive city criticism but also reflection. | |||
I am searching for a right way to visualize the tensions. The human touch as reminder of the (in)humane complications. | |||
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. | |||
I | |||
== How do you plan to make it? == | == How do you plan to make it? == | ||
I will organize a second series of workshops comparable to the [[User:Lor.ensō#/XPUB2/PROTOTYPING/COLLOQUIUM/|colloquium]]. This will include natives of Rotterdam and people who have moved here. <syntaxhighlight lang="qvto"> | |||
"Search for examples of city planning / marketing / maintenance of the city/village/township where you are from*" | "Search for examples of city planning / marketing / maintenance of the city/village/township where you are from*" | ||
collect img / promises / memories | collect img / promises / memories | ||
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aaand thennn | aaand thennn | ||
ask yourself / eachother "how do you relate to -location-?" | ask yourself / eachother "how do you relate to -location-?" | ||
</syntaxhighlight> | </syntaxhighlight>'''[Collective Location Relation Annotation Session]''' | ||
'''[Collective Location Relation Annotation Session]''' | |||
A continued version of before-mentioned collection | A continued version of before-mentioned collection. | ||
# gather context and get either frustrated or inspired or in the best scenario both, | # gather context and get either frustrated or inspired or in the best scenario both, | ||
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# develop this into a pamphlet / poster | # develop this into a pamphlet / poster | ||
# share the stories behind the output | # share the stories behind the output | ||
'''[drawing, editing, annotations, public]''' | '''[drawing, editing, annotations, public]''' | ||
Using drawings and annotations as vessels for human touch to add incalculated dimensions and to develop a series of critical pamphlets as a visual essay per person. | Using drawings and annotations as vessels for human touch to add incalculated dimensions and to develop a series of critical pamphlets as a visual essay per person. | ||
[[File:Catalogimg.png|left|thumb]] | |||
'''[catalog]''' | '''[catalog]''' | ||
All the stories, images, analysis will be stored | All the stories, images, analysis will be stored. | ||
'''[game]''' | '''[game]''' | ||
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''Architecturally - Buildings, ways, pavements, roads, streets'' | ''Architecturally - Buildings, ways, pavements, roads, streets'' | ||
''Virtually - Imagery, impression, media, | ''Virtually - Imagery, impression, media, software, simulation, games'' | ||
''Culturally - budget cuts, false iconism, counterculture, grassroots, community, festivals/gigs/events'' | |||
This cube will then transform into a dice and the contexts, problems, barriers will then turn into decks of cards. It will all revolve around Rotterdam, example of output are map tiles as playing field<gallery> | |||
File:Unity3dcube.png|Unity void | |||
File:Tileless surface near viaduct.jpg| covering up tiles | |||
File:Broken tile.jpg|actual tiles | |||
File:Contexture sketch pun and writing, my favorite.jpg|dices illustration | |||
File:Proto map 1.jpg|tile tryout | |||
</gallery> | |||
== What is your timetable? == | == What is your timetable? == | ||
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* Try to zoom out a bit and make a colloquium based on 'location satisfactory' surveys municipalities often give | * Try to zoom out a bit and make a colloquium based on 'location satisfactory' surveys municipalities often give | ||
* Have a lot of discussions to get things clear and also give yourself time to digest. | * Have a lot of discussions to get things clear and also give yourself time to digest. | ||
* Colloquium: start developing a method for an infrastructure for | * Colloquium: start developing a method for an infrastructure for counter-mapping / anti-campaigning. | ||
* Start making a visual catalog | * Start making a visual catalog | ||
===== '''November:''' ===== | ===== '''November:''' ===== | ||
* Public moment do a walk-in type deal and develop some sort of way to ask for contributions. | * Public moment do a walk-in type deal and develop some sort of way to ask for contributions. | ||
* Reflect on the colloquium & public moment, gather first ideas and ways to develop a method. | * Reflect on the colloquium & public moment, gather first ideas and ways to develop a method. | ||
* 23 november: deliver project proposal ~ digest, organise, prepare presentation | * 23 november: deliver project proposal ~ digest, organise, prepare presentation | ||
* 27 november: pre-assessment | * 27 november: pre-assessment | ||
* Continue the catalog | * Continue the catalog | ||
===== ''' December''' ===== | ===== ''' December''' ===== | ||
* 1-7 December: Attend the [https://constantvzw.org/site/Open-call-Worksession-a-Cane-Sticky-notes-Another-body.html Worksession: a Cane, Sticky notes, Another body], look for connections, insights, network | * 1-7 December: Attend the [https://constantvzw.org/site/Open-call-Worksession-a-Cane-Sticky-notes-Another-body.html Worksession: a Cane, Sticky notes, Another body], look for connections, insights, network | ||
* 17 December: Assessment | |||
* 17 December: Assessment | |||
* Note crucial feedback -> Develop a new version for collective annotation | * Note crucial feedback -> Develop a new version for collective annotation | ||
* Gather interests multiple groups and organize meetups | * Gather interests multiple groups and organize meetups | ||
* Continue the catalog | * Continue the catalog | ||
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===== '''January''' ===== | ===== '''January''' ===== | ||
* Start meetups - at least one with peers and one with outsiders | * Start meetups - at least one with peers and one with outsiders | ||
* Experiment with different sessions, gather contexts through new colloquiums | * Experiment with different sessions, gather contexts through new colloquiums | ||
* Notes and developments | * Notes and developments | ||
===== '''February / March''' ===== | ===== '''February / March''' ===== | ||
* Continue meetups: prototype the format -> dice + context decks + map | * Continue meetups: prototype the format -> dice + context decks + map | ||
* Brainstorm / feedback with people | * Brainstorm / feedback with people | ||
* Think about the outcomes: Tabletop Simulator / Physical Game | * Think about the outcomes: Tabletop Simulator / Physical Game | ||
* Start sketching the potential outcomes: Dice, Cards, Map?: designs of thesis and outcome must align | * Start sketching the potential outcomes: Dice, Cards, Map?: designs of thesis and outcome must align | ||
* Notes and developments | * Notes and developments | ||
===== '''April''' ===== | ===== '''April''' ===== | ||
* Continue meetups: test design | * Continue meetups: test design | ||
* Finetune | * Finetune | ||
* Notes and development | * Notes and development | ||
=== '''\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\PHASE THREE//''' === | === '''\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\PHASE THREE//''' === | ||
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* documentation | * documentation | ||
* Assessment | * Assessment | ||
* Graduate | * Graduate | ||
* Build up | * Build up | ||
===== '''July''' ===== | ===== '''July''' ===== | ||
* Build up and present<br /> | * Build up and present<br /> | ||
== Who can help you and how? == | == Who can help you and how? == | ||
Latest revision as of 11:48, 13 December 2024
What do you want to make?
My project Contextures will address multiple forms of accessibility in Rotterdam.
The outcomes will include a game and a thesis. Both aspects of the project (the game and thesis) will address how obstacles are encountered in the city of Rotterdam.Contextures arises from my frustrations with the hollow renders and and representations through which Rotterdam is presented. Traveling around the city of Rotterdam with my brother, who is in a wheelchair, has made me even more aware of the architectural, cultural and bureaucratic limits that define our movements.
The project is divided into six elements, which will be incorporated into the game's format: Socially, Accessibly, Bureaucratically, Architecturally, Virtually and Culturally. In the game, the player* is presented with a series of obstacles which they have to overcome, while presented with i.e. an objective.
Each of the six faces of the dice direct the player* to a particular field (Socially, Accessibly, Bureaucratically, Architecturally, Virtually and Culturally) which they must navigate. They are presented with pragmatic "real world" problems (which have been expressed by participants in the workshops I will organise). In the series of workshops and public moments, I will develop an infrastructure for counter-mapping and anti-campaigning.
By campaign, I refer to city planning and campaigns I see around the city. But also campaigning in the sense to the franchise of Dungeons and Dragons: Where a series of adventures is referred to as a "campaign". These campaigns are located in either non-fictional or fictional places.
The thesis will take the form of a series of annotated drawings.
*player is meant as plural and also end user.
Why do you want to make it?
I am having mixed feelings about Rotterdam, the city I was born and raised in. A city that has been suffering the second city syndrome for a while and is on the list of poorest, least healthy. Having some sort of bad reputation based on multiple elements. Then resulting into trying to develop a better city, getting on the list of cool cities. Developing gentrification and seeming to be more (inter)nationally appealing cities.
Rotterdam, Make It Happen is a campaign that focuses on developing the city but rather than focusing on the problems that the city has from the national housing crisis, poverty rates, social care conditions, narco-capital problems.
This project is my experiment to develop an infrastructure based on constructive city criticism but also reflection. I am searching for a right way to visualize the tensions. The human touch as reminder of the (in)humane complications. 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.
How do you plan to make it?
I will organize a second series of workshops comparable to the colloquium. This will include natives of Rotterdam and people who have moved here.
"Search for examples of city planning / marketing / maintenance of the city/village/township where you are from*"
collect img / promises / memories
then.......
ask yourself / eachother "how does -location- relate to you as the inhabitant*?"
aaand thennn
ask yourself / eachother "how do you relate to -location-?"
[Collective Location Relation Annotation Session]
A continued version of before-mentioned collection.
- gather context and get either frustrated or inspired or in the best scenario both,
- print out the imagery or text and annotate how this doesn't apply to the person getting into it.
- develop this into a pamphlet / poster
- share the stories behind the output
[drawing, editing, annotations, public]
Using drawings and annotations as vessels for human touch to add incalculated dimensions and to develop a series of critical pamphlets as a visual essay per person.
[catalog]
All the stories, images, analysis will be stored.
[game]
Using the stories of people and they situations and creating character sets of it with human metadata.
[thesis]
In my thesis proposal I play with the 6 sides of the cube
Socially - Personal, Affordable, Family, Housing
Accessibly - Disability, Information provision, infrastructures
Bureaucratically - Protocols of local municipal / governments
Architecturally - Buildings, ways, pavements, roads, streets
Virtually - Imagery, impression, media, software, simulation, games
Culturally - budget cuts, false iconism, counterculture, grassroots, community, festivals/gigs/events
This cube will then transform into a dice and the contexts, problems, barriers will then turn into decks of cards. It will all revolve around Rotterdam, example of output are map tiles as playing field
Unity void
covering up tiles
actual tiles
dices illustration
tile tryout
What is your timetable?
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\PHASE ONE //
September / October
- Read up on previously saved sources. Start sketching and writing thoughts down, collecting both sides.
- Research, attend lectures, visit exhibitions
- Try to zoom out a bit and make a colloquium based on 'location satisfactory' surveys municipalities often give
- Have a lot of discussions to get things clear and also give yourself time to digest.
- Colloquium: start developing a method for an infrastructure for counter-mapping / anti-campaigning.
- Start making a visual catalog
November:
- Public moment do a walk-in type deal and develop some sort of way to ask for contributions.
- Reflect on the colloquium & public moment, gather first ideas and ways to develop a method.
- 23 november: deliver project proposal ~ digest, organise, prepare presentation
- 27 november: pre-assessment
- Continue the catalog
December
- 1-7 December: Attend the Worksession: a Cane, Sticky notes, Another body, look for connections, insights, network
- 17 December: Assessment
- Note crucial feedback -> Develop a new version for collective annotation
- Gather interests multiple groups and organize meetups
- Continue the catalog
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\PHASE TWO//
January
- Start meetups - at least one with peers and one with outsiders
- Experiment with different sessions, gather contexts through new colloquiums
- Notes and developments
February / March
- Continue meetups: prototype the format -> dice + context decks + map
- Brainstorm / feedback with people
- Think about the outcomes: Tabletop Simulator / Physical Game
- Start sketching the potential outcomes: Dice, Cards, Map?: designs of thesis and outcome must align
- Notes and developments
April
- Continue meetups: test design
- Finetune
- Notes and development
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\PHASE THREE//
May
- Finalize the dice, cards and map.
- Final test
June
- Final feedback and finetuning and deliver
- documentation
- Assessment
- Graduate
- Build up
July
- Build up and present
Who can help you and how?
XPUB tutors/peers/alumni
.ZIP
Friends and Family
Open Call: anyone interested in / the people that want to participate.
The people in Gent during the worksession
People outside the bubble
Relation to previous practice
Bachelor works:
3D / Worldbuilding - The Monster of Albert Heijn / Happytalism / Concrete Desert
Video - How to enter the art academy with a Wheelchair
Design thinking: GENERATION Y?
XPUB
SI23
- PUBLIC TRANSPORT
- COUNTERMAPPING =BUGS OF MISCONDUCT
- Method(ol(atry)ogy) is a way of surviving experience
- /door/PORT
SI24
- ROTTERDAM 2040 / CybeRdam2077 - PolderPunk?
- --------Benchmarking-------
- poinxs (points of inaccess)
- Pedestrian / virtual walk
Relation to a larger context
Recurring topics that are linked to my thesis will be divided through multiple chapters and key issues, but will all be connected through contexts and how these elements have thresholds and tension drawing between them and eachother.
Virtually ~ Architecturally / Innovation and Virtual Tools as development or demolition of reality
~ Imagery, impression, media, softwares, simulation, games, buildings, ways, pavements, roads, streets ~
Bureaucratically ~ Culturally / zoning: friction between counter culture and bureaucracy, false iconism vs community
~ Protocols of local municipal / governments / Budge cuts, false iconism, counterculture, grassroots, community, festivals/gigs/events~
Socially ~ Accessibly / (un)Familiar barriers, social thresholds and unmeant ignorance
~ Personal, Affordable, Family, Housing, Disability, Information provision, infrastructures~
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