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ROTTERDAM 2040
m watching this for the second time. And te first time I was naïve / new to this film.
Whilst I am currently watching this, I feel.. double about this?
to be fair Gyz la rivière has quite some [pseudo-critical] feedback and he's familiar with the problems, the irony of the city. There is a lot to say about the choices made for a city. There's plenty of paradoxes he says
but on the other hand, there is this post card - nostalgic - self absorbed - corporate graphic designer aesthetic with some problematic shots that take away the message.
It's interesting because the maker seems self-aware of his opinion going all over the place but I'd call it an artistically driven docu-rant-ary.
The problems and the solutions he states have the contrast of having a very complex nature and the outcome of how he'd like to see it are more like underbelly-stated arguments
I see some sort of modern conservative thinking towards some views "VROEGAH WAS ALLES BETAH"
"The city would improve if they'd revive fundamental buildings" I agree that a lot of a fundament has been destroyed without good reasoning but to reconstruct old building-replica's
This critique and the documentary is one big fever dream post-card with good arguments but I'm just crashing and erroring.
"we can finally design the city"
Rotterdam was bombed by fascism but also modernism and urban renewal
the idea of making the city more human
IBM -> SATURN -> ....DECATHLON
his manifest seems all over the place as well, which has something authentic yet... cringe?
it's a sort of rotterdam that is allowed to exist but also the one that i partially disagree with
STATION BERGWEG
51.93259088571757, 4.47072459760769
I was walking and my mother was in her scootmobile, we wondered about the new foodhall in the older station. In this building there first was a Happy Italy and before that even a cinema I believe.
Currently it´s a hip yuppified food hall, we went there to see how it is, that we could go there.
There was a ramp so it accessible if you would like to enter. At least if you wanted to remain there. However, the roof terrace was handicapped by the age of the building.
for means of toliet access
A walk from my house to PZI in pedestrian mode of 3DRotterdam
RotterPunk 2025
It reminded me of this
poinxs (points of inaccess) [working on it]
a... Portmanteau (do not quote me on that) of
POI = Point of Interest
and
INXS which borrows the abbreviation of the band, but this stands for in excess(in overly large amounts), where I mean it as In-access (not accessible).
XS4ALL
I intent to counter map locations.
using a platform to use gps
The locations aren't manoeuvrable.
With this project a way of countermapping could be marking certain points of the city.
Examples of tools to practice:
https://leafletjs.com/ leaflet js: an open-source JavaScript library
for mobile-friendly interactive maps
benchmarking (see next
--------Benchmarking-------
What does it mean to benchmark
dictionaries will tell that it is
1. a standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.
"the pay settlement will set a **benchmark for** other employers and workers"
2. ideal - a test designed to evaluate or compare the performance of computer hardware or software.
"we thought we'd run some benchmarks on the smartphone"
3. Benchmark is a surveyor's mark, cut on a rock, stone, wall or a building showing the height of that mark above sea level. Contours are lines shown in brown, joining places of equal height above the sea level. Heights of inaccessible areas are shown by contours drawn in broken lines called form lines.
4. or building and used as a reference point in measuring [altitudes]
5. ==evaluate (something) by comparison with a standard.==
=="we are **benchmarking** our performance **against** external criteria"==
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In these definitions, it all comes down to defining standards and legitimizing / testing.
When I would look for a certain hard or software, I need to check either consumer platforms such as tweakers, reviewers on video platforms.
What do I mean with it?
I'm intrigued by the idea of sitting / being / loitering somewhere and look for the compatibility of platforms. Be it physical or mental. The accessibility meets disability in where the bar is set and the threshold is put. The threshold is both a place to fit a tool that grants access as it is a bar to closes access.
When walking around, make a pitstop at a bench. Just sit there in the middle part. Look forward. Make yourself comfortable and take an unlimited time to see evaluate the premise. What does the neighborhood look like, what is the demographic. How much is it designed? Is it possible for anyone to be there?'
`Make a list of the specs.``Is there anything that could be tweaked?``Be your own tracking device``In a smart city, be a smart civilian, look at the surroundings``from your own point of critique, make notes`Example:
Report to the gemeente
https://www.ongehinderd.nl/
https://www.notbored.org/UU.html
https://inaccessiblecities.ajcontrast.com/
ideas
Are there ways to report bugs on streetlevel? Be it websites or sites or ways to make cities more accessible?
https://meldr.rotterdam.nl/
Is the city a circuit? (A brief discussion with Friedrich Kittler and Shannon Mattern between to bridge)
[working on this]
How to reconnect with the city in a empathetic way without framing myself as something ridiculous as an empath
Why do people like Susan Bijl bags (ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS HERE)
[this is more an underbelly anti-yuppy level description]
Is a big city open enough for people with disabilities, is the manoeuvrability?
counter-flaneuring [working on it]
camouflage and not be seen
geoguessing [working on it]
Pedestrian
What does it mean to be a pedestrian
I can not ride a bike, that made me a "WALKER"
my .walking my way to get to places is not that interesting walking around to empty my brain
When I'm saying to someone that I'm going to go for a walk, I sometimes get the response like: "Where to?" as if I always to need to reach a goal
my parents used to ask me to do chores and favors because oh no why would I go on walks without any purpose, goals, or benefits
walking just a way of getting out of my stuffy bubble in the house to empty my brain, to look around and just be zigzagging through the streets.
The purpose is more to walk something off rather than aiming towards a spot. It is away to maintain some space in the open
I prefer walking to places if the weather isn't too extreme, I'm never in a hurry transport is for A-B, for 1 to 0 walking is for neither, rather aimless in direction but aimful in health it's good for clearing up inner storms
either listening to the surroundings or closing off from them
I feel where people do the flaneuring I tend to want to be unnoticed, accept for greeting / politeness but other than that I just temporarily claim my walking distances as I were to be alone in a train
I talk about this walking because I feel that dull approach about what it means to be a pedestrian is rather bullshit. Plenty of people tend to want to ride their bikes, cars to get to places. I can not ride a bike due to balance problem, I never felt the urge to be the transporter vehiclist.
As if being a pedestrian isn't productive enough, as if it is bad to be dull.
What does it mean to be a pedestrian?
CybeRdam2077 - PolderPunk?
27-05-24 We have visited VONK https://www.vonkrotterdam.nl/
The innovation center of Rotterdam Municipality.
We had 3 talks:
- One about Behavioural Change / Nudging
- One about The Traffic Light system
- One about the RotterdamSimulation methods via VR / AR and digitizing the city to something equal to what they said "GTA" but I thought more of Cyberpunk 2077 or the Matrix open world
In the sense of the uprising industrialized neolights and hip city downfall of a city
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=d65c73666fce9bae&sxsrf=ADLYWIKyNJxHTon7EPXo5NyopFHwNargVA:1716902557387&q=rotterdam+cyberpunk&uds=ADvngMgwiuRe_0AnQUg9C1BclBAHtUEh3Clh60Kan9kcyG3HPcnZfIAnqRyP3Ji96P8afcrGpKBA3aSAX9wZrJWioSvMWKrv1L_njJsfOiBA8sqhFXPzPSxSxFsjWG16Zz8ZFLAuelm6ynEBIvEJc0kxPOGdxTVxRxJkSCkIdFonudq4a-8B__nSzuioS4hhJKh2-CUziXPPpsBUKYgMNFaUsBhRGA2nN3Bn3uc47kvqC5dw1PGVdEwULxJB0M3ZL-X8-otKXYRHhYOQk0fruTbcYklGhGOCbjSqMwTTWHBUZDFPQ6quArBBuZQo76rxQHO5Z1m2gLXn&udm=2&prmd=ivnbz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiu46-4uLCGAxWs9gIHHQo9A0YQtKgLegQIERAB&biw=1920&bih=995&dpr=1
NeoRotterdam, the idea of Rotterdam being so smart and innovative that it turns into a cybernetic dock station.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/13gdyi4/the_city_of_rotterdam/
(still working on this)
Since monday I have been thinking about the correlations between my spare time interests and the xpub topics. On monday, I was triggered or intrigued by the idea of future of Rotterdam. At VONK [the innovation center] they presented us with the three principles of the city, at least, the three principles they presented
- Nudging
- Controlling the traffic through soft and hardware that connects to the city sensors center.
- Rotterdam 3D /ARVRXR -> Looking at the city from / on a virtual perspective. "Gaaf zeg hey" as any person into tech and gadget and modern stuff would say.
The moment I saw the building and the modern gamification of the city, it reminded me of Night City in broad daylight. Night City is the place where Cyberpunk takes place.
It is very interesting to think about innovation, about the smartness of the city where I grew up. The city seems to be dangling in between
Cyberpunk
a genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology.
and
Solarpunk
a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.
the suffix -punk refers to the punk asin steampunk (a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.)
But to a Dutch degree, I always feel that a lot 'we' try to mimic or make our own, becomes a very watered down overly negotiated version of the actual thing. I'm talking about the Polder Model.
The polder model is a method of consensus decision-making, based on the Dutch version of consensus-based economic and social policymaking in the 1980s and 1990s. It gets its name from the Dutch word for tracts of land enclosed by dikes.
Therefore, looking at the citymarketing / citybuilding / cityplanning idea of Rotterdam as some sort of PolderPunk starting to develop in 2025.
This kind of future city gives me some sort of future fictional idea. In a perfect world.
I'm afraid of this perfect world.
https://www.rotterdam.nl/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbackend-dvg.rotterdam.nl%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fcontent_large%2Fpublic%2F2023-06%2Fartist-impressions-Hofplein-Aerial-Render.jpg%3Fh%3D8f74817f%26itok%3DwizvRIkp&w=828&q=75
CITY AS A MACHINE
Programmer and tech writer Paul McFedries explains this thinking:
The city is a computer, the streetscape is the interface, you are the cursor, and your smartphone is the input device. This is the user-based, bottom-up version of the city-as-computer idea, but there’s also a top-down version, which is systems-based. It looks at urban systems such as transit, garbage, and water and wonders whether the city could be more efficient and better organized if these systems were ‘smart.’
https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/
This idea came to mind because of the connections of both defintions of a port / terminal / transport / uploading and downloading / docking etc
City as platform or Worldbuilding in games
Monday 27th of May 2024 our class had a tour in the municipality building at the halvemaan passage.
It started with nudging en behavioral psychology, followed by traffic organising and then virtualizing Rotterdam.
The nudging idea is something I am still digesting, because it is passive agressive way to change behavior, I asked if the nudger is opened to be nudged and the reaction seemed open but didn't feel as open in the end.
The second presentation lead us to the hofplein roundabout, talking about the amount of sensors, cameras and networks.
The third presentation had a map
Word diving in my brain:
American / EUROTruck Simulator
Going from a to b, delivering, being the the transmission / transaction / transport.
Chrono Trigger
JRPG story driven and mapped out game
DBZ Kakarot
Open World gamified version of Dragon Ball Z-series
Garry's Mod
a world making / modding program with open source game making.
Portal
a futurist manoeuvring game to finish levels through thinking
Zelda Breathe of the Wild
The first open world zelda game,
Tales of Symphonia
turn based rpg game that has geopolitics put into a story
Valheim
Surival / crafting game, make your own villlage / cities
house
Cyberpunk 2077
NeoTokyo-aestheticgame with the open world of Night City. A techno dystopian wolr
Pokémon Arceus / Violet
open world Pok'mon game
Route as circuit
the idea of mapping your location in the same idea as making a connection based electronic schematics and maps.
This is a way to see if there are connections missing, is your route an open or closed circuit.
Does an open route mean that everybody is welcome / public
Does a close route mean that it's exclusive / private
Is a detour a connection with extension cords?
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Geo-equalism
Considering Latitudes and altitudes defined by the prime meridian and the equator
meridian meaning MidDay
Equator -> AeQuator -> circulus Aequator diei etonoctus
Circle equalizing day and night
make equal
equa
Timezones
geopolitics
the production of space
performativity lefebreve (or how ever the fuck you spell this french name)
affordance : what are the possibilities?
capabilities / possibilities
hostile architecture
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mapping out everything I'm doing to find the lines.
Tool: Obsidian
Outcomes:
THINGS OF LIST I AM CURRENTLY READING AND WANT TO READ AND ALSO ARE REFERENCES I GOT FROM PL LIST
MARTINO:
Friedrich Kittler's The City is a Medium
https://monoskop.org/images/0/04/Kittler_Friedrich_1996_The_City_Is_a_Medium.pdf
Shannon Mattern's A City is Not a Computer
https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/
LIDIA:
Perhaps interesting to look at nudge theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
And, related to that, this film by Harun Farocki about the human design/social engineering of shopping malls: https://www.harunfarocki.de/films/2000s/2001/the-creators-of-the-shopping-worlds.html
The Real Lives game: https://reallivesworld.com/
ORIT HALPHEN https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-data
FLANEUR CRITICISM https://salvage.zone/salvaging-situationism-race-and-space/
RIVIERA:
Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L. (2018) Care work: dreaming disability justice, Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press. https://web-p-ebscohost-com.hr.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=03ca461f-92bd-4b52-8b86-646443bf4597%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLGNvb2tpZSx1aWQmbGFuZz1ubCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=1934092&db=e000xww
https://walkinglab.org/podcast/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14735789709366602
Knabb, K. (ed.) (2006) Situationist International anthology, Rev. and expanded ed., Berkeley, CA, Bureau of Public Secrets.
: https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf
_verb_
verb: **benchmark**; 3rd person present: **benchmarks**; past tense: **benchmarked**; past participle: **benchmarked**; gerund or present participle: **benchmarking**
1. evaluate (something) by comparison with a standard.
"we are **benchmarking** our performance **against** external criteria"
When walking around, make a pitstop at a bench. Just sit there in the middle part. Look forward. Make yourself comfortable and take an unlimited time to see evaluate the premise. What does the neighborhood look like, what is the demographic. How much is it designed? Is it possible for anyone to be there?
Make a list of the specs.
Is there anything that could be tweaked?
Be your own tracking device
In a smart city, be a smart civilian, look at the surroundings
from your own point of critique, make notes
1. What does it mean to be a pedestrian
"you see me walking coz I don't run fam"
I can not ride a bike, that made me a "WALKER"
my .walking my way to get to places is not that interesting walking around to empty my brain
When I'm saying to someone that I'm going to go for a walk, I sometimes get the response like: "Where to?" as if I always to need to reach a goal
my parents used to ask me to do chores and favors because oh no why would I go on walks without any purpose, goals, or benefits
walking just a way of getting out of my stuffy bubble in the house to empty my brain, to look around and just be zigzagging through the streets.
The purpose is more to walk something off rather than aiming towards a spot. It is away to maintain some space in the open
I prefer walking to places if the weather isn't too extreme, I'm never in a hurry transport is for A-B, for 1 to 0 walking is for neither, rather aimless in direction but aimful in health it's good for clearing up inner storms
either listening to the surroundings or closing off from them
I feel where people do the flaneuring I tend to want to be unnoticed, accept for greeting / politeness but other than that I just temporarily claim my walking distances as I were to be alone in a train
I talk about this walking because I feel that dull approach about what it means to be a pedestrian is rather bullshit. Plenty of people tend to want to ride their bikes, cars to get to places. I can not ride a bike due to balance problem, I never felt the urge to be the transporter vehiclist.
As if being a pedestrian isn't productive enough, as if it is bad to be dull.
I recently made a thing about public transport. _link to previous_
On the subject of a to b
When I want to be mindless, I play Eurotruck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.
Which are a games that are about transporting goods.
It gives some sort of weird satisfaction of doing something as just hours of virtual driving.
It's the part of the machine, part of the connection. Being an arrow on a map
looking at the maintenance points being on the road.
It is something that truly gives me a very lay back setting. However it does give me a meta layer of these circuits connecting capital(ist) interfaces.
Looking at cities as if they were chips.
Maps as schematics
roads as (Short) Circuits
short circuiting when connection can not be established
Progressive metal/ Dance/Electronic music recording artist Remi Gallégo aka The Algorithm has album covers that resemble what I mean
1. Benchmarking as loitering practice
benchmark:
a standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.
"the pay settlement will set a **benchmark for** other employers and workers"
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Similar:
standard point of reference
basis
gauge
criterion
specification
canon
convention
guide
guideline
guiding principle
norm
touchstone
yardstick
test
litmus test
barometer
indicator
measure
model
exemplar
classic example
pattern
paradigm
archetype
prototype
1. ideal - a test designed to evaluate or compare the performance of computer hardware or software.
"we thought we'd run some benchmarks on the smartphone"
2. 2.
a surveyor's mark cut in a wall, [pillar](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=67fc9792c54ce1a9&sxsrf=ADLYWIJNRzh4v8X6axoHo4fRYYZQ_q9rAw:1714820162357&q=pillar&si=ACC90nwzNcbSj6HKgPz_Y9fzn5jc8K7Z6dCAS352LRopcmWq3oQfzH2HKqTOhsvQYPAib2sS6u6GYeOnij1HnnEyxdlQJss4uQ%3D%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS04X16vOFAxVAgv0HHa0KAD4QyecJegQIOBBD), or building and used as a reference point in measuring [altitudes](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=67fc9792c54ce1a9&sxsrf=ADLYWIJNRzh4v8X6axoHo4fRYYZQ_q9rAw:1714820162357&q=altitudes&si=ACC90nytWkp8tIhRuqKAL6XWXX-NlfdwPdSSQAnG374XrO3m9R-PZkSgmtUTLwxOKxlEiHWmYbSZaRZgpTdivYP7SllfTBy9YFtOYpHSoRZjQ5DRrFknl6E%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS04X16vOFAxVAgv0HHa0KAD4QyecJegQIOBBE).
2. POINXS - POINTS OF INACCESS
LINK TO PMMNBENEBEBIJFNBNBSDDF?
No pedestrian?! pic made by Thijs :))))
