Navigators Project Launch

19 Aug 2019

How do cities change?

How has London evolved over the past 1000 years?

Creatively explore and Critically research London using a selected Tube line as catalyst

Record the environment and document the journey – connections with people, architecture, art, sounds, smells, feelings

Identify a site, use digimap to access site information

Claire’s presentation: different ways of documenting/ navigating the city:

Jacqui Chan – City as a living organism
Lisenet Busscha – Jewels in the city
Objects of memory – casting as documentation
Smellmaps – Amsterdam
Forensic Architecture – Design visualization for humanitarian purposes
Wind turbines – James Dyson Award
Selling snowballs – statement on consumerist scams
Pushing block of ice – raising awareness on conditions of labour
Rubbings across surfaces
Video tours – different eyes – see different things – memories, stories, feelings, instructions

Some other means of documentation I would like to explore:

Give words to feelings
Document comfort – temperature, light, shade, wind speed, enclosure, sound/noise, surface texture (sensory conditions map)

Design ideas to explore:

My Interpretation of the Brief (Product pathway)

Analyse: Time-Space-(usage) Change
Explore the interaction with urban environment and with one another
Analyse current means of navigation (Google maps, spoken directions, street signage etc.)
Explore more subconscious means of navigation (smell, sound, feelings, comfort levels etc.)
Tube line: connects one to his/her urban environment – all that is associated with the city – but this means is not all inclusive
Creative documentation
Background research – relevant areas of interest
From background research – identify aspect for investigation, develop project
Space & associated objects – redesigned for contemporary and future inhabitants (project a change, identify future needs)
Products, spaces, wearable devices

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