User:Lor.ensō/XPUB1/SI23/

Quilt INC / METHODOLOGY

Methods remark:

Method(ol(atry)ogy) is a way of surviving experience

Method is a way of surviving experience. The post-coping mechanism of someone on a journey to the center of the data. How does one look. Is it the landscape of hexadecimals, binaries, flying bits or deeper digging. A mole goes into depth in a different matter than the human does.

As I kinda recalled in my 'essay'(as Rosa called my methods remark ;)), this word or experiment/experience has been quite the quilt on its own, I'm a bit confused but it also feels like the step after coping? Method on its own feels like a way to practicalize whatever the ---- I'm struggling with.

Yes, I'm currently linking this sentence to my own surviving experience as I'm trying to create my own method in how to live this

◹xpub / ◹carer / ◹own life ◹triangle◹.

...But about the text; the word first makes an entry in the title. And it introduces feminist methodology as a radical alternative.

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My current method is just doing a quick scan through the text and react quickly and associative through the text. (Whilst making comments on the side)(to process text, this worked, to read, it didn't work

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When searching for methods vs methodology;

"Methodology vs. method. 'Methodology' is not just a fancier-sounding term for 'methods' – it refers to the school of thought by which you conduct research. Method, on the other hand, is all about practicalities: surveys, experiments, observations and so on

Luckily the text goes back to the nature of method, which contextualizes it to 'normal everyday life stuff' as a cleaning habit towards radicalizing (mobilizing) in order to protest injustice. As I'm writing about Methods, I hear Victor talk about methods and I'm not sure if I'm doing this right but I'm doing it in my own method?

It mentions methodolatry; "Worship of a method that employs it uncritically regardless of ever- changing particulars and steadfastly ignoring past negative results."

Text I'm responding to / with:

"A method is distinct from a recipe or formula, in exactly the sense that science is not embodied in a textbook and cooking is not a cookbook. It is a real-time, lived, and experiential form of ordering practice. In the words of Isabelle Stengers: Indeed, you do not follow a challenge, you do not obey it, it does not direct you. You have to invent the way to answer it, it proposes risks for your answers, but gives you no model. Thus it is consonant with my conception of science. It is consonant because our “social experience,” the moral and political options which situate us cannot become self-conscious just by a process of honest self-examination. It must be created through an active process of learning. Learning how we are situated, inventing the situations from which we can learn more about our situation does not give power to emancipation over cognition. It associates both emancipation and cognition. (1993, 46)"
"... It is a word at once stronger than para- digm, in the sense that it often crosses, both historically and spatially, most uses of the Kuhnian term. It may be part of several paradigms; it may persist after other attributes of a paradigm have fallen away. Methods considered in this fashion may have many of the features of surviving experience, depending on the values of the community using them: they can become imperialistic or monolithic (if one only has a hammer, the world becomes a nail, etc.); they can become a means of enforcing fundamentalism (reducing the world to that which can be perceived using the method); or they can become ways of encompassing multiplicity, complexity, and ambiguity. It is in this latter sense that feminism is important methodologically, I think, although we have sometimes used it in the monolithic or reductionist senses. Feminists have written some extremely powerful methodological pieces, not always recognized as such..."

"Considered formally, then, the attributes of feminist method that are particularly important are: 1. experiential and collective basis; 2. processual nature; 3. honoring contradiction and partialness; 4. situated historicity with great attention to detail and specificity; and 5. the simultaneous application of all of these points."

SI23 / COUNTERMAPPING / PUBLIC TRANSPORT / /DOOR/PORT "How did we get here?"

Ideas session for SI23_________________________________________________________

-(con)text adventure games, where limitations are there in the game (up down south east west north and other commands) and also the limitations offline could be implemented in case / scenarios |

KEEP IN MIND THIS IS JUST A BRAINDUMP / NO(okmaybesome) CONCRETE THINGS

...// booting mind>>>>>>>>>>

general comment:

we have so much we can work with (all the readings / prototyping) /

imagemagick / python / html css javascript / web / ascii art

ghost host parasite server etc / the wordquilt / code of conduct etc etc etc

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first; Maria X mentioned the word question but the connection broke it into quest-ion, which could be a happy accident to use the storyline to ask questions that may have come up in the reading and prototyping of previous weeks. QuiltQuestionQuest or somethin.

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second : based on the adventure txt and fictionalizing human computer something(very paraphrased from a previous text we read)

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you see what you type -> person a speaks

person b does walk compass-like

limiting the options "You can't open cabinet" said by person c

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the narrator in this part could read it out either non-linear or linear depending on the 'script' so if the person does something not according to script, the narrator will go to bottom of script

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third --> something I have been thinking abouthttps://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Lor.ens%C5%8D#Concept:_Where_do_ya_draw_the_line?

I am kind of using the idea of Google maps step by step and using the linear story and fictionalizing / gamifying the inaccessible process from A to B (this is more a political thing and I might just do it for myself on the side)

this could also just be a personal side quest

using 1-3 cases with the idea of connections servers protocols etc

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fourth: yesterday's class reminded me of the dos games / old mac games and the actual collosal cave adventure: Roberta Williams as inspiration https://www.mobygames.com/game/2029/the-roberta-williams-anthology/

https://www.linuxadictos.com/wp-content/uploads/colossal-adventure.jpeg.webp :)))))

I have this with me in the studio btw vvvvvv

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https://www.mobygames.com/game/2029/the-roberta-williams-anthology/

..fifth, make the special issue somewhat like an webquilt arcade? out of ideas, mind will close down for maintenance

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250224 update / looking back it was more a cool reference than a work to make, I think?

COUNTERMAPPING =BUGS OF MISCONDUCT

Walking around in the neighbourhood thinking and defining (counter)mapping I walk in this space that used to be a prison complex in the north of rotterdam, The area has changed into a hip area that flirts with truman show type of aesthetics. I have been thinking about the infrastructures and how things are not working in this city. I have many objections into city planning and I'm wildly attracted to ideas of who owns the city.

As I stroll my sunday gloom away, mending the shapes of spaces I read or hear something along the lines of Codes of Conduct, earlier today I was watching the sitcom parks and recreation, which is a based at a local government in America and the shows the bureaucracy sometimes.

I am wrestling with my ideas on what I want to do and I am doing these things justice and or the right way.

A bubble came up in opposition to a Code of Conduct and I thought about Bugs of Misconduct.

Dividing the definitions:

BUGS:
informal: a harmful microorganism, typically a bacterium. "their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs"
an illness caused by a microorganism.
"he'd just recovered from a flu bug"

Similar: illness, ailment, infection, disease, disorder, sickness, affliction, malady, complaint, upset, condition, infirmity, indisposition, malaise, bacterium, germ, virus, bacillus, microorganism. microbe. lurgy
an enthusiastic interest in something.
"they caught the sailing bug"
Similar: obsession, enthusiasm, craze, fad, mania, rage, passion, fixation, hobby, interest, pastime thing
2.
North American
a small insect.
"a thick green scum which crawls with bugs, centipedes, and worse"
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Similar:
insect. flea. mite. midge. creepy-crawly, beastie, minibeast
3.
Entomology
an insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking.
4.
a concealed miniature microphone, used for secret eavesdropping or recording.
"they cleaned out the bugs and wiretaps"
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Similar:
listening device, hidden microphone, receiver, transmitter, wire, wiretap, phone tap, tap, bugging device
5.
an error in a computer program or system.
"a custom program we used developed a bug"
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Similar: fault, error, defect, flaw, imperfection, failing, breakdown, virus, glitch gremlin, snarl-up
verb
verb: bug; 3rd person present: bugs; past tense: bugged; past participle: bugged; gerund or present participle: bugging
1.
conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or device) in order to listen to or record someone's conversations secretly.
"their offices, homes, and telephones were bugged"
   record or listen to (a conversation) using a concealed microphone.
   "she fears that her conversations were bugged"
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   Similar:
   record
tap
listen in on, eavesdrop on, spy on, overhear, wiretapmonitorm, phone-tap, snoop on
2.
informal
annoy or bother (someone).
"a persistent reporter was bugging me"

noun: misconduct
/ˌmɪsˈkɒndʌkt/

1. unacceptable or improper behaviour, especially by an employee or professional person. "she was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal and dismissed" h Similar: wrongdoing, delinquency, unlawfulness ,lawlessness ,crime ,felony,criminality,sin,sinfulness,evil,evil-doing,unprofessional behaviour,unprofessionalism,unethical behaviour,malpractice,maladministration,dereliction of duty ,negligence,breach of ethics,impropriety,immorality,abuse,malversation,misbehaviour, bad behaviour,misdeeds. misdemeanours,disorderly conductbadnessmischief

naughtiness

rudeness
Hockey a penalty assessed against a player for unsportsmanlike conduct. plural noun: misconducts "Smith got a game misconduct for spearing Nick Kypreos"

2. mismanagement, especially culpable neglect of duties. "the general was pardoned for misconduct of the war"

verb
verb: misconduct; 3rd person present: misconducts; past tense: misconducted; past participle: misconducted; gerund or present participle: misconducting
/ˌmɪskənˈdʌkt/

1. behave in an improper manner. "the committee reprimanded two members who were found to have misconducted themselves"

2. mismanage (an activity). "there is no evidence that the premises were being misconducted"

Thinking about the bugs of misconduct, it's a great ethical dilemma because it is, if I am correct, a bit of a contronym/auto-antonym/Janus term. OR a homonym.

To me, bugs of misconduct are an error in the system. The cracks that appear to be loopholes or invite to squat. It opens for alternative opportunities as a crack in the wall. The bugs go in and start to acclimatize to the space, showcasing the cracks and the errors as fundament. For what idk yet. I'm in need of looking at the readings of previous weeks and to show.

another of countermapping is to showcase hostile architecture, or infrastructure, maybe that is what I have been doing earlier with locating the steps from one person in a scootmobile / wheelchair to another by public transport.

A bug of misconduct is potentially a parasite that leeches off the host.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

This was a sideproject that comes from my best inspiration: frustration <3

Concept: Where do ya draw the line?

1. "Public transport: From A to B via Metroline E and Tram 7."

A personal observation based on the limitations concerning accessibility, usability concerning healthcare, public transport.

Since XPUB is focused on making things public, I'm thinking about some stuff.

Public Transport, How do you make Transport Public? Or more public

I'm just thinking about the idea of the public service for the transport from an accessible / disability point of view. This case is quite personal but also inspirational from my critical thinking designartresearchblabla point of view.

So, let's say my mother wants to go to my brother. What needs to be done? For this method I'm using the google maps standard*/ **

Go out of the house
Unlock the scootmobile
Uncover the scootmobile
Put the cover inside
move the bicycle
position the basket and possible bags
start scootmobile
go to end of street
wait for traffic lights / or if you're lucky it's green but it's always in favour of the cars.
once you crossed the street, go to the elevator
check in at port **
push the button
wait for elevator
possibly wait for people to exit the elevator
enter the elevator***
wait until you are at the platform
exit elevator to right side(need to confirm this)
wait for the metro
search for the good entrance without the metal poles in the middle ^
be in metro for one stop
reach central station
pull back to exit metro
go back or forward to elevator
push button and wait for elevator / if you are lucky it'll be there already
enter the elevator ***
wait til you reach centraal station begane grond
go back or forward to exit elevator
check out at port **
ride towards third tram platform
enter third tram platform
wait for tram 7 towards woudestein? (need to be confirmed)
in the meantime, guess on what half of the platform the tram will stop
inevitably ride or race through crowd to reach the middle / center of tram****
enter tram in transit ^
position yourself
wait until you reach you reach your destination
try to get out of the tram
check out as well
you can finally breathe again
enjoy your visit
when it is time to leave, leave*
go back to the tram
search for the right port on the other side of the street
inevitably ride or race through crowd to reach the middle / center of tram****
step / check in
it might be possible that there is a parent and a baby carriage in the space that is also meant for wheelchair and rollator
wait in discomfort
person with baby carriage needs to get out, instead of going to another exit, this person insists to get out the door they came in, they lift the scootmobile and you are in even more discomfort
you need to wait some more time
finally you are at Rotterdam Centraal
struggle to get out of the tram once again**
head to the metro port
check in and somehow also drive towards the elevator***
push the button of the elevator
position yourself in the metro at the place with no metal poles in the middle
wait one stop
get out the metro
go to elevator
go up
go out
go home
place all the stuff back
recover

*before you go, think about leaving at least 10-15 minutes in advance

** might need someone else to do it because it closes again in a certain timeframe

*** this means the elevator works

**** there might be a parent with child, cyclist, person in wheelchair, other person in scootmobile there

^ take into consideration the doors are literally timeframes so you better have someone with you to hold the door

Example: --------

The Rotterdam Electric Tram has multiple Entrances -> Ports

Port asin the doors

Port asin checkin / outs

[] PORT 1

[] PORT 2

[] PORT 3

<<<<< (_□_□▯▯□__▯▯_□__▯▯_□_)>>>>>>

DRIVER | BEGIN | MIDDLE | END

| FRONT | CENTER | BACK

[PORT1] | [PORT2] | [PORT3]

check I / O | I / O | I / O

FOOTABLE | FOOTABLE | FOOTABLE

KIDABLE | KIDABLE | KIDABLE

| WHEELABLE |

FOR CONTEXT

CENTRAAL STATION TRAM STOP

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Words:https://codepen.io/lor_enso/pen/LYvxYbd

https://research.wdka.nl/index.php/news-activities/counter-mapping-autonomy-workshop-2-29-02-2024/

/PORT

Trying to map out words in Obsidian

eurotruck/american truck simulator as a reference for being in a process of sharing files -> gaming for the relaxation and accepting the absurdity of simulator but also understand the educational value of these peculiar games

as a part of the /door group (w/ Victor and Mania)

I was thinking about how to grasp all of the words we (both as Quilt INC and as the entire class), collected, discussed and try to understand and define in one big web/map of words, thinking about the runme.org example as shown in Aymerics lecture. My thought rise to the idea of

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REFLECTION # trimester 2 SI23

The second trimester was nice to start. With the winter break behind me, I could really just start up again without the constant feeling of running a treadmill version of imagining Sisyphus happy. During this trimester it was quite interesting to dive deeper in the ideas of servers and datacenters.

My focus came back and I attended more events, I still felt a bit alienated but felt the xpubbery of things going into my bloodstream as I finally put up my little desk next to the door.

If I'd be very critical to myself, I would say that I would have liked to have more energy next to the things happenings during the XPUB days. Life was just exhausting but it got better on a week per week basis. I done the tasks I needed to do but at the same time my body and mind just claimed for me to touch grass, go outside, do other things because the per week load was sometimes a bit too much to grasp. In the end it streamlined to some more coherent (as I used my /port to but all the meanings and projects in 1 page with the perspective of the SI23 and also with the wonderful pre-tag.

Not to be smashing my work to the ground I also am very happy that the group project with Mania and Victor was this nice. Our forces combined made this amazing metaphysical paper-to-web-and-back-again work

I wanted to dive into Python, ImageMagick and in the end I was doing something completely: going back to my HTML / CSS experience and instead of working with the things I already (but ofcourse implementing then) I started just playing from the perspective of Seamfulness. I had a talk once with a fellow Unity-maker and we shared memes based on the fact that it does not matter if the code isn´t working properly and filled with my glitches and error, as long as it does what it needs to do. And that's how I approached the /port. I wanted to make it this raw interpretation of the terminal but then making it more welcoming and a space where information is exchanged with the limited access and the visitor is being presented with not only as huuuuge glossary but also context and the input to continue to the other project. It was my intent to show the seams but not literally linking all the things together. Because my first plan was to use the window (based on Alice's window mapping) to put all the words in the window frame as the 'port' to the space, using cables and jacks and such to 'make the connection'. Also for the sense of making something with for me experimental printing on transparent paper, but as I reflected on this idea. I changed from the window frame to the screen, since the visitor might not even know that there were connections and that might have given it an accessible touch.

My research was based on the understandings of methodology in general as discussed in and about Susan Leigh Star's piece. The ideas of using more ways to look at things finally struck to me and I felt inspired by frustration that I as a carer/family member/former user of social transportation. Both the A to B-U turning and also the trevvel story are very interesting to me because the amount of interactions, requests, errors and bureaucratic features from the both social code to the actual code of systems seem very intriguing to dive deeper in for a Thesis and Graduation Project. Accessibility and Disability from the privatized perspective from both bureaucratic as well as technologically governed institutions. While I am writing this, I'm also thinking "can't we do something lighter or different?" and I like to listen to that train of thought. An idea of publishing this would be to show and relate to making these difficult and unneededly overcomplicated made processes and making these more tangible and understandable.

As an entertainment element related to the issue, I started watching Silicon Valley again. A series that gets an extra layer with the readings we have done. Mania and I were sharing our findings on the street.