Very briefly, this is based on work from MIT in America. The original MIT project mapped in real time the activity of users in a city. In this case Rome.
In essence what they did was use mobile technology such as Bluetooth and GPS to turn the city into a social network site. What I am starting to work on is using the idea of a city as a social network and applying some of these ideas and theories to H Building. This is involves number of difeferent elements. Alfred Korzybsk quote that the map is not territory is perhaps key here, in that the work will be about mapping the use of the building and how people interact with building and the spaces. This ties back into work such as the design of Harry Becks London Underground Map, where distances don't matter or the work of Edward Tufte, and the visualization of information.
For example do you start to map specific areas and of the building. Routes through the building, from entering the building to the 9th Floor in H Building. Corners, corridors, lifts where people move through or places where people meet such as vending machines, lifts stairs. How do you map all these areas (hotspots) Then what do you do with these spaces when you know people are there. Can you make use of these "dead spaces"?
Initially using myself to map how I enter and walk through and use the building. Develop this to times of day when spaces are busiest, what days are busiest, what time of the year are busiest? What courses(graphics, fine art) What years are busiest?
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/wikicity-0830.html
http://senseable.mit.edu/wikicity/rome/
http://senseable.mit.edu/wikicity/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map-territory_relation
http://realtime.waag.org/
http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome/
http://www.senseofthecity.nl/sotce/sotc.jsp?cmd=autoplay
http://www.mlgk.nl/
http://www.carloratti.com/projects/015.htm
http://mobile.mit.edu/component/option,com_deeppockets/task,catShow/id,32/Itemid,76/ Print this post
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