User:Lor.ensō/Final presentation

Welcome to the official assessment presentation page of Lorenzo Quint. 

This page will guide you on my XPUB journey of the last two years. It's a curation that hopes to bring context and a half. It might be overwhelming. The format will go back in time, traverse through virtuals / methods / drawings and other shapes of annotations. 

There might be some detours out of our control, but if you hold on tight we will make it to the end. Enjoy the ride and let yourself be guided from A to B.

your individual contributions to the special issues

SPECIAL ISSUE 22 - Byte Noise: Sound you see me? Sound you don't (w/ Senka)

In this work, I collaborated with Senka. As we both come from a practice that involves 3D (world) building and net-art as media for our story telling, we decided to combine my Unity3D skills and their Blender skills to make a virtual world based on everything that does happen but is not visible at RADIO WORM. Combining these with an essay we made in opposition of the request that we as a class would deliver and experiment Protocols for Active Archiving. In this project, we didn't provide the answer but merely raised different questions. This became a media installation that was projected on the tv screen that is at Wunderbar. on the screens we showed our (Senka&mine) collective fused poetic essay to deliver the message back to Radio Worm. We based our aesthetics on both the command/fish etc terms (data streams), the vessel of radio worm and the colors of WORM in general. This is my text that I wrote.

Lorenzo's Wiki Entry

Description of work: These 3D renditions of the Radio Worm studio contrast the empty studio with all the invisible audio data, the endless stream of radio shows, stored on Worm's hard drive. Since this is the most important space for the community of radio makers, we created this snapshot of it while thinking about the question 'What do we do with all this invisible digital data and how do we prevent it from getting "dusty"?'

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  Unityworking with Maria X / Senka

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SPECIAL ISSUE 23 - HOW DID WE GET HERE? /DOOR/PORT/

This was a collaboration with Mania and Victor. Our shared part in this work was that Victor designed the access token to our 'feminist data center' as we presented our Special Issue at Varia. We address how our information gets to our interfaces, acknowledging the fact that it's not this romantic cloud system but an infrastructure that delivers information via satellite, glass fibre and other spots. When we designed the entrance to the special issue, we wanted to play with the idea of limited access to grant people information. Victor made the access token (img), directing to Mania's introduction and data walk (which also encapsulates our conversations about fibre cables sprouting up the street during the establishment of our collective project. Mania's project then redirects to my project /port. The port to information.

A port is a virtual point where network connections start and end.

as we provide access, we provide a knocking on the door that gives acesss to the port, where everything comes together

/port, an access point to describe all the jargon and references that was shown at the special issue event at varia. In this project, I played with the pre-, summary and detail html tags. I used the aesthetic of the command prompt which is an interface we use(d) during our time at XPUB. My practice during my bachelors included a lot of research and interests in access of information, since media literacy, dis and misinformation were of catastrophic effect on people's understanding and gullibility. Access is key in my projects. So I wanted to make a index-like page that is a collection of all our word definitions, etymology, jargon and other linguistical madness.

SPECIAL ISSUE 24 - POINTS OF INACCESS ROTTERDAM [POINXS 010]

This Special Issue was a crucial precursor to my graduation project. As someone who has lived in Rotterdam his entire life, the city critique and topics have been interesting. During this trimester we were given a lot of different ways to look critically at Rotterdam. Over the years I already gathered some criticism and this Special Issue gave me some first hands-on ways to deal with it.

This resulted In POINXS: A critical counter map looking at city marketing/planning versus the city living and experience. It's a parody on postcard surreality and apps/websites portraying cool and flashy 2D/3D imagery without the complicated dimensions of the city without showing what's behind the scenes.

Rotterdam is 'back on the map'.

POINXS questions that map and looks at a city that has become less livable and affordable and reports the bugs from a hill that leads to a dead end pavement, via private transport to wheelchair inaccessible hotspots with ambitions to become a multi-user platform for reporting other people's POINXS.

For this Special Issue, we made a flyer / map containing our content for the Special Issue at UBIK. We made memes and parodies on commercial

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  In this meme I use an older meme with the knowledge obtained in VONK on Nudging theory. This one didn't make the map / folder.

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  This meme is a part of my research in how Rotterdam looks virtually. This is a precursor to Renderdam. It shows Rotterdam from flight / truck / marine / train simulators. Going from games into simulation was a big part in my research.

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  This is a meme based on inaccesibility in cultural hip and happening hotspots. It's a place you can go and also has the option to be inside with i.e. wheelchair / mobility scooter. But it also has a cool rooftop bar and that is where it gets uncomfortable. Station Bergweg might not have intended to be inaccessible but it sure takes away access and affordance in multiple layers.

the development of your reading/writing practice across the 2 years,

SPECIAL ISSUE 23 / PUBLIC TRANSPORT

During the second special issue of our first year, we did some research into text-based games and since the dynamic of a lot of of those games go on a step by step basis, I felt inspired and made somewhat of a story based on a true narrative of mobility concerning my mother and my brother. This was somewhat of a draft but became crucial as the steps are a big part in my Counter Planner

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*/ **

1. Go out of the house
2. Unlock the scootmobile
3. Uncover the scootmobile
4. Put the cover inside
5. move the bicycle
6. position the basket and possible bags
7. start scootmobile
8. go to end of street
9. wait for traffic lights / or if you're lucky it's green but it's always in favour of the cars.
10. once you crossed the street, go to the elevator
11. check in at port **
12. push the button
13. wait for elevator
14. possibly wait for people to exit the elevator
15. enter the elevator***
16. wait until you are at the platform
17. exit elevator to right side(need to confirm this)
18. wait for the metro
19. search for the good entrance without the metal poles in the middle ^
20. be in metro for one stop
21. reach central station
22. pull back to exit metro
23. go back or forward to elevator
24. push button and wait for elevator / if you are lucky it'll be there already
25. enter the elevator ***
26. wait til you reach centraal station begane grond
27. go back or forward to exit elevator
28. check out at port **
29. ride towards third tram platform
30. enter third tram platform
31. wait for tram 7 towards woudestein? (need to be confirmed)
32. in the meantime, guess on what half of the platform the tram will stop
33. inevitably ride or race through crowd to reach the middle / center of tram****
34. enter tram in transit ^
35. position yourself
36. wait until you reach you reach your destination
37. try to get out of the tram
38. check out as well
39. you can finally breathe again
40. enjoy your visit
41. when it is time to leave, leave*
42. go back to the tram
43. search for the right port on the other side of the street
44. inevitably ride or race through crowd to reach the middle / center of tram****
45. step / check in
46. it might be possible that there is a parent and a baby carriage in the space that is also meant for wheelchair and rollator
47. wait in discomfort
48. 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
49. you need to wait some more time
50. finally you are at Rotterdam Centraal
51. struggle to get out of the tram once again**
52. head to the metro port
53. check in and somehow also drive towards the elevator***
54. push the button of the elevator
55. position yourself in the metro at the place with no metal poles in the middle
56. wait one stop
57. get out the metro
58. go to elevator
59. go up
60. go out
61. go home
62. place all the stuff back
63. 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

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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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SPECIAL ISSUE 24 / Benchmarking.

During the third special issue. I was playing around with idea of the city being a machine. Previous trimester and this one, I was interested in how ideas of i.e terminal and port are both visible in a city especially as Rotterdam has a terminal that up and downloads goods I came to realize this as well when I was playing a game called EuroTruck Simulator 2 that visualizes the transport of goods through terminals and ports. Ports of access in information. At some points I started looking at other crossreferential words as I tried to develop my own methodology. This resulted in a thought experiment called Benchmarking.

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`

Questions / thoughts I wrote down during trimester were of huge influence on my thesis / research towards the final work.

Is the city a circuit? The resemblance between a city and a computer, its interactions. Traversing as information

I also was [and still am!] frustrated with yuppy/gentrification in the city

Why do people like Susan Bijl bags? Is it to be part of something cool? Is it about being part of a group of people that cares more about the image of being an urbanite and is it a leisure class / flaneuring thing? [most probably affirmative]

Is a big city open enough for people with disabilities? [most probably not yet~~]

counter-flaneuring: To swim against the current and walk into a figure that is showing off their status in the middle of the street.

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CybeRdam2077  - PolderPunk?

27-05-24 We have visited VONK https://www.vonkrotterdam.nl/

The innovation center of Rotterdam Municipality.

NeoRotterdam, the idea of Rotterdam being so smart and innovative that it turns into a cybernetic dock station.

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

From Gyz La Rivière's ROTTERDAM 2040

STRUCTURELESS INSPIRED WRITINGS 

the development of your prototyping practice across the 2 years,

3D -> PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ->

GENT

your thesis (only a brief overview for context, as this has been assessed separately in depth),

RENDERDAM - THESIS ON CITY COUNTER-TEXTURES

Renderdam: a thesis on city counter-textures focuses on personal situations relating to city planning. It is written with grief, care and other intense emotions which a readable in thesis.

It goes deep into the character of Rotterdam.

your final work and research in the second year,

My final work has evolved quite a lot. I started thinking about the municipality again but was a bit too much in the idea of

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It clearly comes from POINXS.

POINXS -> COLLOQUIUM -> public moment -> SIMULATORS -> GAME -> REVISIT ->

I was very much inspired by the text I got from Martino about xyz+t by jara en femke

But through juggling with balance of my critique I started the year with this idea of [img from Marloes class].

I had A LOT of ideas and I gathered a lot of information. During the pen plotter colloquium I made this image that was some sort of

after that.

the project used to be called contextures, but it was a bit too much to explain. So the overall title became Renderdam. Which are the virtual version of Rotterdam in many shapes forms and interfaces.

Contextures was a word as a con or now counterversion of the context of the city and also referring to the 3D textures and the multiple meanings of textures.

The process was a research in developing counter-mapping and counter-planning.

I used multiple outcomes as form experimentations to find and or combine i.e. annotations(recording/written), drawings, Unity3D, (web) interfaces.

Annotations have been a succesful element in my work. The drawing and portraying of personal situation gave a honest counter argument to the false optimism of the city.

Renderdam is a search in developing counter outcomes in relation to their aimed media, through analysis and tests of online and offline surfaces and interfaces. With getting from A to B, based on personal stories as well as getting things done.

In relation to the project proposal, the changes were mostly related to the practice. Contextures changed [back] into Renderdam. Because that is where most of the critique is aimed at.

To exemplify my project, one of my works in progress revolves around how to visualize a waiting space. Having in mind the actual waiting time, space and 'space' as in the state of mind that occurs when becoming dependent of an instance. A visual mix of where Kafka meets Escher.

Another experimentation I'm (counter)planning, puts the procedures of applying for something at the Gemeente in the mould of online planners/maps. Trying to figure out blackbox-code behind the i.e. Google Maps, 9292ov and trying to put the procedural steps of getting something done in the text areas of a planned route. At the same time looking at what is used to localize problems or data in Rotterdam with https://www.3drotterdam.nl/ https://www.buitenbeter.nl/ https://meldr.rotterdam.nl/. Experimentation with physical maps and software like Leaflet.js in combination of the previously mentioned experiments will then bloom into the all encompassing counter-planner that will narrate the stories time critiquing Rotterdam's Make It Happen.

My project Contextures will address multiple forms of accessibility in Rotterdam.

The outcomes will include experiments with the planners and plannings of things to get around and getting things done or 'making it happen'. I include those absurd bureaucratic waiting spaces and times into an counter-planner / alternative route maker. Instead of a simple line on a map, it becomes like 'a piece of yarn/fabric' with knots and repetition that is just completely gets stuck of the complexities. Both aspects of the project /counterplanner/ and thesis will address how obstacles are encountered in the city of Rotterdam. One of the purposes is to showcase physical and mental thresholds and that A to B is not only having things done/getting somewhere but also solutionism.

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 will be based on the complexities going from a to b. which will be incorporated into the counter planner getting things done/around.

It will revolve around the ideas protocol/structure/process/procedures and annotated visuals and the protocols/structures/processes/procedures that do not just require a ramp to 'fix'.] By this ==I develop an infrastructure for counter-mapping in the sense i.e. a counter planner. The thesis will take the form of a series of annotated drawing

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. My specific focus is on accessibility and this the red thread that goes through multiple dimensiom

This project is my experiment to develop an infrastructure based on constructive city criticism but also reflection. In this, the human element in the precalculated environment is the centerpiece. 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 plan to experiment with multiple media. From annotating map, to drawing comic style interventions, to online maps and adding the points from A to B

See it as a third evolution in the series of PUBLIC TRANSPORT where I show a 63 step travel from a to b and back again, combined with POINXS.

drawing, editing, annotations, public**

Using drawings and annotations as vessels for human touch i.e. add incalculated dimensions(human contexts) into precalculated environments.

Perhaps to develop a series of critical counter-infrastructures as a visual "essay" per situation/context.

Collect my/mother';s/brother's direct procedures to i.e. apply for trevvel in a visual matter to showcase, also to investigate the User Interfaces and Experiences and make my annotations via experimentation with different media. Using the situations/stories of close relatives/friends and applying the drastic context to multiple surfaces via experimentation with different media.

Thesis

In my thesis proposal I play with the 6 sides of the cube through annotated drawings and using the chapters.

The three chapters of Contextures group the above into pairs:

• Socially - Accessibly / (un)Familiar barriers, social thresholds and unmeant ignorance I refuse to allow myself to fall in a pit of despair. This is a healthy reflection on the topics; reacting honestly to a complex of issues in search for (alternative) mechanism.
• Virtually - Architecturally / Innovation and Virtual Tools as development or demolition of reality
• Bureaucratically - Culturally / Zoning: friction between counter culture and bureaucracy, false iconism vs community

This cube will then transform into the contexts, problems, barriers It will all revolve around my/our experiences in Rotterdam. To show that A to B is not a simple process in to getting around and getting things done.

Contextures is a zoom in zoom out, counter map/planner that focuses on different cases. Generating the whole pictures buy collecting multiple situations. Either closed or pending procesdures. It is a related to pavements, to movements in the city, to the harsh realities and opposing of the renders, tiles cover up / protect. The tiles relate to the situations of the stories. Always requiring the practice. As example: To get the 'social taxi' you need to request it, in order to request it, you need to apply for it and hope that you get access to this particular service, this procedure takes 6-8 weeks, meaning that you stay -in position- for a long time. Before a next 'turn', you need to wait and maintain mentally stable to continue. And even when you 'get' to the 'final' tile, it does not mean that the acquired service is functioning properly. __________________________________________________________________________________________-------------------------Another example: My brother wants to visit my mother. Since he is in a wheelchair, the quick fix is a collection of stable large and smaller ramps, then there is still the threshold of entering the small pavement, to get on the ramp. So for that ramp, you need to be sure that there is not a car in front on the house. So that means, to claim the parking spot in front of the house and also changing the brick/tile from the pavement to the street into this ramp-like tile. In order to do this, you write a letter / mail to the municipality. The WMO. This request then ends on a pile of requests. Then a municipal worker calls you back to clarify and redirect you to the right person. And then finally, a half year later. A phone call takes place, asking for clarification and concluding that this particular desk at the gemeente is not the one we're looking for. Redirecting us to the desk of parking and a Buiten Beter app. -----------------------------------------These are potential showcases]

In contextures, will then transform into the contexts, problems, barriers It will all revolve around our experiences in Rotterdam, example of output are map/planner/landscape interfaces.

Going from A to B; From the situated location, to moving around in the city. Showing the pragmatic practice in opposing to a simple solution.

A ramp is a material fix but there is more to accessibility than just a fix.

Potential Showcase

As example: To get the 'social taxi' you need to request it, in order to request it, you need to apply for it and hope that you get access to this particular service, this procedure takes 6-8 weeks, meaning that you stay -in position- for a long time. Before a next 'turn', you need to wait and maintain mentally stable to continue.  And even when you 'get' to the 'final' tile, it does not mean that the acquired service is functioning properly.

Another example: My brother wants to visit my mother. Since he is in a wheelchair, the quick fix is a collection of stable large and smaller ramps, then there is still the threshold of entering the small pavement, to get on the ramp. So for that ramp, you need to be sure that there is not a car in front on the house. So that means, to claim the parking spot in front of the house and also changing the brick/tile from the pavement to the street into this ramp-like tile. In order to do this, you write a letter / mail to the municipality. The WMO. This request then ends on a pile of requests. Then a municipal worker calls you back to clarify and redirect you to the right person.  And then finally, a half year later. A phone call takes place, asking for clarification and concluding that this particular desk at the gemeente is not the one we're looking for.  Redirecting us to the desk of parking and a Buiten Beter app.

How do you plan to make it?

[game]

Using the stories of close relatives/friends/myself the situations

THEMES

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

What is your timetable?

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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
• Continue the catalog

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January

• Process the feedback of the assessment, revisit project proposal
• Draw more
• Notes and developments
• Have the check-in talk with Michael/Manetta/Steve
• Start making stuff!!!!

February / March

• prototype the format -> map, play with material en drawing, print and cut out the process, experiment with tiles and imagery, web interfaces, 3D visuals]
• Research & Experiment in Unity / HTML CSS / paper (map) formats /
• Research the interfaces
• Brainstorm / feedback with people
• Notes and developments
• Test / discuss ideas.

RENDERDAM

Renderdam is the rendered version of Rotterdam. A research project based on accessibility in and around the city. There are multiple thresholds in the provided interfaces that often limit the movements to either go from A to B or to get things done. In contrast, a lot of toxic positivity is found: Rotterdam, make it happen and The city of tomorrow, we build today. The futuristic image smoothens out the struggles based on i.e. accessibility, disability and affordance.

Renderdam is a collection of outcomes in analysis and critique around limited movements, innovation, marketing, artist impressions, personal stories and annotated drawings.

But that's

plans for final publication and grad show (with the understanding that you will continue to work on this after the assessment)

HYPER REALISTIC VISION OF INTERIOR DESIGN FOR THE EXHIBITION.

3 MOODBOARDS

1. making it happen but not as quick
2. renderdam relating to futurist dystopia popculture
3. critical annotations

COUNTERPLANNER [RASPBERRY PI + TOUCH SCREEN]

POSTCARDS

Renderdam is the rendered version of Rotterdam. A research project based on accessibility in and around the city. There are multiple thresholds in the provided interfaces that often limit the movements to either go from A to B or to get things done. In contrast, a lot of toxic positivity is found: Rotterdam, make it happen and The city of tomorrow, we build today. The futuristic image smoothens out the struggles based on i.e. accessibility, disability and affordance.

Renderdam is a collection of outcomes in analysis and critique around limited movements, innovation, marketing, artist impressions, personal stories and annotated drawings.

The presentation at buitenplaats brienenoord is going to be somewhat of a Renderdam Counterdesk. Consisting of the following elements.

RENDERDAM Counterplanner

The CounterPlanner is a parody on routeplanners like 9292OV, Google Maps.and also surfaces, interfaces and mechanisms of institutions like Trevvel. It is also a critique on neoliberal [automated] bureaucracy in relation to Rotterdam's Make It Happen slogan. The outcome of the work is not necessarily that nothing ever gets done. But it is merely about the limited moving capacity of when you are dependent on either wheelchair, mobility scooter, social taxi instances or policies of a (local) government concerning laws like WLZ or WMO. It emphasizes of the urgent needs of people like my brother and mother. The counterplanner does not have a space to fill in the A to B's. It uses a 'choose your own adventure'-layer which limited options.

The content of the counterplanner are a collectiong step-by-step storylines that reveal the u-turns and alternative routes that are needed to move in a reality of limited options and movement space, rendering a lot of spaces that seem public into an inaccesible liminal space / backroom. The information is based on true stories and carry a lot of depth.

RENDERDAM Critical Post Cards

The Renderdam Critical Post Cards are a way of showing what I call Contextures

a portmanteau of the following words

Con = "an instance of [deceiving] or [tricking] someone. / [persuade](someone) to do or believe something by lying to them." (Oxford).  

Context "the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood." (Oxford).

Textures "the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance."(Oxford).

By these renders I mean: the images the city presents of itself. They do not represent the context of the city and give a false promise to potential buyers, visitors and inhabitants.

Of course there is no trust to be found in the artist impressions and postcard surrealities that are plastered on top of the wasteland from which the new buildings will emerge.

The drawings I made for my thesis Contextures,

are drawings that reflect on developments in the city They have annotations which I will shorten, for the postcards are a6 or a5 size.

The front will be the picture, the back will contain one or two paragraph-summaries of the annotation, redirecting to the thesis website.

Next to that, a tikkie-donation QR code will also be part of the postcards. [?]

RENDERDAM CounterBanner

The Renderdam Counter Banner is a poster-size image that drags the visitor into the renderdam universe. It asks the viewer multiple questions and has statements on how to position yourself in the future. To what degree is renderdam is tool for innovation and where does it use the same tool to demolish?

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http://vimeo.com/888675463

http://vimeo.com/66960267

http://vimeo.com/916623977

A bittersweet afternoon walk, feeling like I was part of Renderdam.

The City of Rotterdam casted into the virtual mould of hollow representation. Setting a scene based on future promise. The design of this promise is then turned into realization as the inhabitants of the city turn into their 2D predecessors in the announcement of the real estate company.

As this idea / interpretation of Rotterdam is realizing and takes shape from its virtual concepts. The streets turn into a design rather than the opposite. As I mentioned before in PolderPunk 2077.  I see a lot of resemblance in certain games.

To me it's starting to feel that the commodification of the impression is more important because that brings revenue. Rather than realizing the value of the actual citizens. This idea of the new cool Rotterdam is of course not entirely negative. Considering the fact that its popularity rose in the last ~15 years.

The problem (I have) with this new angle is that it provides an image that lacks context. The lack of poverty (in Dutch context), proper (social) housing and *many other problems*. The idea of this metropolitan megacity is of course very attractive for outsiders.  (Sub)cultures are well celebrated even though the spaces where they manifest are in constant argument about their existential rights. I'd like to crosslink/refer this argument with mine, because both have to do with municipal zoning plans.

Does it fit within our wishes

  for what we want Rotterdam

  to appear to be?

What value is there morally to be found

   if the revenue exceeds the needs of the demanding people

When I see the announcements of new promising areas, the showcases of both private and public investors and instances. The hollow imagery of the promise misses the filling: The cities contexts and needs. Instead of that, Rotterdam™ or ***R***™ creates a representation based on these contextless imagery. Rotterdam is being and worn as costume and the city undergoes a virtual *seeming* metamorphosis or rather **stagnation** and casts into Renderdam.

ANTITECTURE

I am in a constant battle with new and old buildings. The old Rotterdam buildings are built with the idea that everything of the inhabitants body is working (both the human is functioning = working and its body can function without any disabilities) _properly.

This is a positive render

SURREAL POSTCARDS

Next to the city marketing, Renderdam can also be spotted online at i.e. WoonnetRijnmond, (paraphrased translation from the website.

WoonnetRijnmond is the place for a new place! At WoonnetRijnmond.nl you can see all of the offers from the affiliated corporations in the Rotterdam area. The corporations advertise their offers only on this website, which are rental properties, owner-occupied homes, business premises, parking spaces and storage areas.

https://www.woonnetrijnmond.nl/detail/rotterdam/ijsselmonde/sluiskreek-394/100105126