A draft just to start with…
- The map is drawn based on the existing Auckland Regional map 1:280000 @ A2 (approx.);
- Each dot represents one object/incident (16 have been submitted so far);
- Color of the dot represents the primary color of that item;
- Each object is categorised by its function such as music player or clothing;
- Dashed line for lost ones, and solid line for found ones.
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Stan Allen argues that the modern city is “a place where visible and invisible streams of information, capital and subjects interact in complex formations.[1] ” Hence we need new forms of notation which are capable of presenting the everchanging city.
Someone’s experience of lost and found is rather personal and not commonly shared by the others. While mapping, as Janet Abrams writes, is the conceptual glue linking the tangible world of buildings, cities and landscapes with the tangible world of social networks and electronic communications[2]. I think that by collecting and mapping those lost and found incidents within the city, the idea about this ‘place’ would become more legible to us.
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Misplaced objects are embedded with complex information:
Where is it? / Where has it gone?
Who used to own it? / Who has it gone to?
…and the most important of all:
Why HERE?
The unreasonable disappearance/appearance of an object raises consciousness of a “place” to the person who is in it. That recalls us about Casey’s discussion on why the place seems hidden to us – we believe we do not have to think about his basic facticity very much, …except when we are disoriented or lost.[3]
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Misplacements might be random. Yet I wonder, is there any hidden patten of losing/finding things?
It will be mainly conducted on Internet.
By sending invitations (via Facebook/email) to visit the survey web page, I hope there will be sufficient number of people to participated within the limited time frame (about 3 weeks). And the submissions could be accesses by the public almost instantly.
- Participator can make submission by either filling out the electronic form here or by sending an email. The information will then be collected and posted on the project blog.
- The Instant Map: The location of each lost/found incident will be plotted on a customised map by utilizing “Google Mapplets” . (Sample: The Lost Object Project on Google Maps)
The aim of this map is to visualise the connections between objects, people and the “place”. Details of presentation are to be confirmed. (Sample: The Sharedegg Project)
| Week 6 (Starting 24 Aug 2009) |
Proposal establishment and testing |
| Mid-semester break (31 Aug – 11 Sept): |
Refining survey method Survey starts |
| Week 7 | Survey |
| Week 8 | Survey, Graphic workshop |
| Week 9 | Preparing for exhibition |
| Week 10 (5 Oct – 9 Oct) |
Exhibition Week |
Notes:
[1] Allen, Stan (2000). Mapping the Unmappable: On Notation. From Practice, architecture, technique and representation. London and New York: Routledge. Pg. 31-45
[2] Abrams J. & Hall, P. (Eds.) (2006). Where/Abouts. From Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographic of Networks and Territories. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Design Institute, Pg. 12.
[3] Casey, E. S. (1998) Disappearing places, from The fate of place, a philosophical history. Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, pg.x
My 10min seminar presentation will be on 27 August.
I’ve been thinking about mapping something related to underground / unoccupied space / memory.
…and invisibles in between.
