Counter-Tourist Information Center
Counter-Tourist Information Center is the title of the release event of Special Issue 24: ON LOITERING and other forms of in-situ computation. This page serves as an index for different resources surrounding the event.
Production Teams
Projects
A Device to Read the City
The project imagines an urban environment that can be read, analyzed and criticized as a text. By reading the city in this way we find other possible ways of seeing, moving and listening. In a scripted city, marked by escalating levels of perfection, efficiency and control, the emancipatory aspects of urban life are undermined, allowing little room for anything that doesn't fit the image of the "norm".
Scripts to Read the City is an attempt to foster diverse experiences and uses of space, similar to a theater script interpreted differently by each actor. The tools of navigation are a device indicating which character to play and a guide, including a set of directions and instructions.
The project explores a relation between scripts and spontaneity, chance and control, and how scripts and unpredictability can enhance each other, stimulating imagination, encouraging us to engage with space from another perspective.
Ministry of the Infraordinary
About
At the Ministry of the infra ordinary we are concerned with noticing the subtle fabric that makes up our urban surroundings. Using qualitative and generous methods to interrogate the ever-changing ecosphere that constitute our cities. Working in close relation with partners such as trees, trash-cans, lamp-posts and the canals we want to promote considerate and intimate relations between inhabitants and inhabited.
Whats new?
In a recent project we have partnered up with the counter-tourist information-center to conduct a subjective analysis of the urban space. Utilizing various technologies we have successfully mapped an outline of some of the networks that permeate our city. As we all know the urban is an ever shifting topology. Thus we are dependent on the willingness of people to help us continuously notice different aspects of the urban, in all forms at all scales. So please share your perspective and inform our mapping by placing a pin.
The Ministry of the Infraordinary invites you to experience the city of Rotterdam in ways you haven't imagined. Let the subjective infrastructure map inspire and guide you and search for views you haven't seen before, look up and under, listen carefully for the subtler sounds of life, consider your place and your role in this network of cables, waves and invisible connections and contribute to the photo map that aspires to make the city our own.