There are three things on the todo list this week
- gathering references and statement
- my position
- choose one reference to make prompts
In the iterating project, my final enquiry became”how to use weaving as a means of graphic design to visualise perspectives and emotions of the live in London? “
There are two main things to talk about in my enquiry
- weaving as a means of graphic design(the method)
- perspectives and emotions of the live in London(the topic)
I feel like limiting the means of graphic design is not a good way at this stage, because I want to focus more on my topic but not how to weave. Here, I want to talk about my position. I have desire to express something, not only express for myself, but also express for the group I’m in (eg. Chinese / Asian / Women / International student). If I need to define myself, I would say a non-objective reporter.
So after self-reflection, I change my enquiry as “how to use graphic design to visualise perspectives and emotions of the live in London?“
#cartography #psychogeography #mapping
Week 1-2
The topic or the enquiry at this state is not very clear actually, I only know I’m interested in the relationship between city and individual. So I collected some references about this area.
This is a book focus on how the environment affect people’s emotion and behaviour. As the author is a neuroscientist, he suggests to use portable device to test the body data to reveal how the environment influent us. So I focus on the HRV, which is a data show our emotion.
To visualise the data, I tried to combine them with map. As I want to do something handmade, so I still insist on weaving to show the data.
But the connection between location and emotion is not strong enough, and it seems just a way to show something without meaning. And I started to think about if using weaving is still a good way.
Week3
I decided to give up on handmade thing as it’s not something I’m good at and also a good way to communicate. But the week1-2 experience did help me to make my enquiry more clear and made me think about the logic of making project. Before I’m used to using “science ” logic to do project, while I’m not a scientist, so the result of this often be like a messy. Don’t be too stubborn and don’t be too specific, this is not a scientific experiment, this is my advice to myself.
And I’m going back to the interest about city and individual. As I’m reading more, I started to question myself why I want to do this. The relationship between city and identity became my answer. yes, as I was born in the city, grew up in the city, everything about me is in the city. The city shape my brain and shape who I am. So, here is the enquiry: how the city shape our identity and our identity influence the city?
my references can be divided into three parts:
- city and identity
- psychogeography
- mapmaking
As my project is about making subjective map, so I decided to use mind map to do the writing.
comment for week 3
- how the audience understand your own experience?
- why the shape?
- maybe add some text could be better to create context
- for the publication, try to use transparent paper
Week 3.5
update the shape with grid
People’s identification with a place is not static. The physical environment changes, and so do people’s behaviors. I used coding to model the fluidity of identity in processing, and generate 137 combinations of map
PImage img1, img2, img3, img4;
void setup() {
size(1000, 1000);
img1=loadImage("1.png");
img2=loadImage("2.png");
img3=loadImage("3.png");
img4=loadImage("4.png");
}
void draw() {
background(255);
stroke(255, 255, 255);//Red Green Blue 0-255
for (float x=0; x<=width; x+=50) {
line(x, 0, x, height);
}
for (float y=0; y<=height; y+=50) {
line(0, y, width, y);
}
for (float x=0; x<=width; x+=50) {
for (float y=0; y<=height; y+=50) {
float num=random(0, 7);
//0-1.5 1.5-2 2-3 3-4
if (num<=0.8) {
image(img1, x, y);
}
if (num>0.8 && num<=2) {
image(img2, x, y);
}
if (num>2 && num<=2.5) {
image(img3, x, y);
}
if (num>2.5 && num<=4) {
image(img4, x, y);
}
}
}
saveFrame("fra/####.png");
}