Hack Your Life
We are going to make peace-threat, at-tag a public place withstreet-literature (which not necessary means words but approach the streetitself as a language) by clashing signs, make street-montage and hack ourway into programmed human behavior and make the hurricane …or something like that ....
We are: (Bir)gitte, Ágúst, Ida and Sigurdur
We are: (Bir)gitte, Ágúst, Ida and Sigurdur
posted by Ida J at
16:15
8 Comments:
So maybe instead of footprints on the sidewalk it could be an imprint of the buttocks on the bench - maybe even two sitting next to each other…..?
I thought about roll playing – play a Muslim or a Dane and try to….it is still an open idea, it hasn’t materialized fully yet! Maybe it will later today.
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Gitte, at 05 March, 2006 15:10
I actually like all the three ideas a lot and I think we can use all three, without making the project to overwhelming. To me they represent three opportunities in "benching".
1. The non-synchrone or passive benchcommunication (Reading signs, visual or audio art that you can reflect upon or discuss)
2. The "interactive" or synchrone benchcommunication (the roleplaying, interact with your neighbor)
3. The noncommunicative bench. The 2 dimensional bench. Although it is a noncummunicative bench it is saying quite a bit!
Why not make an artexhibition! Design these three benches to discuss peoples behaviour in the public space!? Or some other questions we want to raise!
(Im already picturing the three benches put up in the atrium, the most benchless place in the city!!!)
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Ida J, at 13 March, 2006 17:35
Sounds interesting...
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Sigurður Högni Jónsson, at 16 March, 2006 22:21
I like the idea of setting these benches up in the Atrium, because like Ida says, it lacks places to sit and talk or relax. It could be interesting to transform the Atrium to a more inviting public space, where you could choose the rhythms that suited you at the moment; either the fast track to EatIt/ScrollBar or the slower track where you could sit on a bench….I’m thinking about the discussions we had about the rhythm of the city and the flow through the streets. But I think that an art exhibition would be great, and a lot easier to do ;o)
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Gitte, at 17 March, 2006 16:25
So a new direction is set
At a our last meeting we discussed our different ideas, and came up with a new one, which we are going to follow: To 'map' the Atrium Divide it into different zones, make it a place for the people attending ITU.
Main ideas
Our fundamental ideas are still the same: Hack or program our lifes into something different and better. Focus on the communication between people. With the mapping the atrium idea, an additional focus was suggested: Location Awareness.
The Atrium
The question is: how can we use the Atrium? It was ment to be the core of ITU, where people meet, exchange ideas and network with eachother, but mostly people just use the Atrium as a place they have to pass on their way to EatIT or Gamelab.
Why not use the Atrium as a map? The room should be divided into different zones, and when you find yourself in one of these, sounds and options would be available.
The digital part
A website would be the second part of the design. You should be able to move physically through the map in the Atrium, but also log in virtually, have an Atrium profile and use the different options. The design is ment to be very discreet and maybee hardly visual.
Here are the ideas I wrote down, of what the website could contain:
- Digital map of the Atrium
- Log in
- Acces to different zones
- All time visual map
- Profile
- Different profile states
- Digital message board
Other Design suggestions
The zones could contain jungle, island or beach themes. Areas for relaxation, meditation, intellectual games etc.
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Ida J, at 25 March, 2006 17:03
Mapping the Atrium
5 zones
The cave
The garden
The island
The river
Each zones has a speciel theme and offers different options, in real life the options will be limited.
General options:
• Log in
• Profile
• See online people
• Se online map of atrium
• See reallife people
• Profile states
• Forum choices
• Create groups and hotspots
• Messageboard
The cave
The zone between EatIt and scrollbar. Overlapping the ping pong zone a bit. This is an area of relaxation, socializing and networking.
The reallife options could be:
• Smalltalking
• Hanging out at the bar
• Enjoy a beer ore several
• Eat and take a break
• Play ping pong or table-socker
The website options could be:
• Chat rooms
• Post your favourite links
The garden
This zone is streching from the stairs to 1st floor and the lab into the middle of the atrium. Boardering The island, The cave and The river.
This is an area of groupworking, networking, making your ideas grow, showroom for your projects etc.
Sounds:
• Birds
• Bees
• Rain
• Breeze
Furniture ex:
• Benches with tables in the middle?
o Sound options integrated in benches?
• Showrooms
The reallife options could be:
• Use the benches for groupworking
• Meet your group here
• Exhibit your resent projects
• Exhibit your cv?
• Networking
The website options could be:
• Work-forums
• Links to coursesites
• Web showrooms
• Post your CV
• Find a company to make a project with
• General options
The River
This zone is starting at the main entrance (Rued Langgaards vej), boardering The Island and The garden. It is a zone where information and litterature are the main purpose. There should be a long bench forming a river where you could sit and achive information about the ITU. Also two info-pillars where relevant information would be found.
Sounds:
• Waterfall
• Watersounds
Furniture ex:
• Benches that put together forms a river
o Soundoptions in benches?
• Info pillars
o Info screens and paper
The reallife options could be:
• Find information about
o ITU
o Courses taking place
o Where to find people
o Arrangements
o Etc
• Find litterature
o Where is the nearest library
• New students meeting point
• Podcasts?
The website options could be:
• Find information about
o ITU
o Courses taking place
o Where to find people
o Arrangements
o Etc
• Find litterature
o Where is the nearest library
o Relevant sites
o Etc
• Podcasts
• Tutorials!!
• ReadIT
• Students giving classes
• General options
The Island
This is a place for gaming and working. We are taking the idea of the ping-pong table and making it into an intellectual subject. It is the meening that you in this zone can work with and play games. It should be part a place where you can enjoy a game in your break or your free time, and a part a place where you work with games and design.
Sounds:
• Wind
• Sea
Furniture ex:
• Round benches facing eachother, with a table in the middle (The bench game)
o Sound options in the benches?
o Screen options in the tables?
The reallife options could be:
• Play relativly simple games both digital and nondigital
o Crosswords
o Soduku
o Chess
o Backgammon
o Etc
• Test your games on the “public”
The website options could be:
• Play games
• Construct small games
• Submit your game
• Showroom/testroom for new games
• Workroom for students designing games and other
• General options
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Ida J, at 05 April, 2006 15:06
Here are the notes I took during our meeting with Cynthia
The synopsis should contain:
• Introduction
• Concept
• Background
• Theoretical framework: (not necessarily from written texts) readings, inspiration (pictures, fieldtrips, websites, Muhammad drawings, all the things that underpins our project)
• The process
• End project.
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Gitte, at 08 April, 2006 11:13
April 19, 2006
Serious group meeting >>>
We discussed our synopsis and exam over at KUA and came to the following
conclusion:
We divided the synopsis into four chapters: background, process, concept
and theory and each of us are going to take one of them to write in more
detail. Than we are going to send each other a draft of our assigned
chapters for the synopsis next Tuesday (April 25) before 16:00 or bring a
cake to class on Wednesday, and next Wednesday is goning to be our big
workday. Than we are going to make a synopsis from all the different
chapters and write a introduction to it and a conclusion. In the exam we
are going to display the final solution.
And the assigned chapters are as follows:
Agust = background
Gitte = process
Ida = concept
Siggi = theory
Background (agust):
How we meet each other and how we made an agreement.
Humanist architecture
Life hacks
Street literature
Juxtaposing symbols
Signs and places
And the manifesto
Process (gitte):
Field trips
Talking
Brainstorming and how we evolved our ideas (let it flow)
Mind maps
Sketches
Blog
Concept (ida):
What is it
How does it work
What for
And why why why
Theory (siggi):
Inspiration from field trips (such as husk mit navn)
Jenny Holzer (inspiration)
The bubble project (inspiration)
V. Flusser
Enabling design
G. Ulmar.
See you all next Wednesday, but before that send your draft on Tuesday or
bring a cake. And don’t forget to smile!
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Sigurður Högni Jónsson, at 19 April, 2006 15:53
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