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Thinking, Watching, and Drawing Motion
Elizabeth Goodman [email protected] @egoodman
THINKING MOTION
Motion = (Time, Location)
WATCHING MOTION
Setha Low On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture 2000
Watching and talking
“We started by studying how people use plazas. We mounted time-lapse cameras overlooking the plazas and recorded daily patterns. We talked to people to find where they came from, where they worked, how frequently they used the place and what they thought of it. But mostly, we watched people to see what they did.”
William H. Whyte The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980)
Observing and recording
Existing data Travel time maps - London MySociety and Stamen Design 2007
Automated tracking Trash | Track MIT Senseable Cities 2009 http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/
REPRESENTING MOTION
SYMBOL SYSTEMS
Representing motion
Arrows
Louis Kahn Philadelphia Planning Study 1953 From Alison Smithson (ed.), Team 10 Primer (1968),
Alphabets Rudolf Laban Schrifttanz 1928
Icons
http://gesturecons.com/
Color-coding
TRACES
Representing motion
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Motion Study
1913
Tasks
Habits Amsterdam Real Time
Waag Society http://realtime.waag.org/
2009
Photo from www.experimentsinmotion.com/
Taxi cabs
Cabspotting Exploratorium, Yellow Cab, and Stamen Design 2006 http://cabspotting.org
Flight patterns
Aaron Koblin Flight patterns 2006
INVISIBLE DYNAMICS
Representing motion
Internet traffic
Natalie Jeremijenko Live WIt consists of an 8 foot piece of plastic spaghetti that hangs from a small electric motor mounted in the ceiling. The motor is electrically connected to a nearby Ethernet cable, so that each bit of information that goes past causes a tiny twitch of the motor. A
Wind
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas http://hint.fm/wind/ 2012
UNDERMINING THE GRID
Representing motion
“The cartographic conventions of the base map are an expression of a singular notion of urban space – one that favors the street over the route, the static over the temporal, and the formal over the subjective. As locative media projects are created that build upon the datum of common base maps, they are structuring a collaborative notion of space within this predefined conception of the city.”
Alison Sant “Redefining the Basemap” 2006
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol6_No2_interactive_city_sant.htm
Emotional states Guy Debord Guide Psychogeographique de Paris (Psychographic Guide to Paris) 1957
DESIGN FROM MOTION
Nuage Vert HeHe 2011 hehe.org2.free.fr Photo: Yuki Kawamura
Jetsam Intel Research 2005 www.urban-atmospheres.net
Trash can
Knowing when to stop
America Revealed: Pizza Delivery PBS America 2012
Resources
Experiments in Motion www.experimentsinmotion.com pinterest.com/experimotion
www.informationisbeautiful.net www. flowingdata.com