U2-positions through contextualising-Week 1-3

There are three things on the todo list this week

1. gathering references and statement
2. my position
3. 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

1. weaving as a means of graphic design(the method)
2. 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.

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.

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:

1. city and identity
2. psychogeography
3. mapmaking

As my project is about making subjective map, so I decided to use mind map to do the writing.

 

comment for week 3

1. how the audience understand your own experience?
2. why the shape?
3. maybe add some text could be better to create context
4. 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");
}