funky footprints, a visual excarvation
DESCRIPTION
Visual Languages was a foundation course during winter 2010/2011 by Prof. Danijela Djokic. The course was an introduction to information vizualisation techniques. Using a variety of analogue and digital techniques during the initial phase of the project, students were tasked to develop an individual form of expression and sign language – a visual language. Subsequently students were asked to mould their visual languages into an imaginary time-based software application environment.TRANSCRIPT
Visual Languages /Grundlagen der Informationsvisualisierung/
Stefan Müller / FHP / WS 2010 //
De-construct & Re-create:
Inspirationsquelle/Berlin map
Chaotic sort/Berlin map
Chaotic sort/Berlin map
Inspirationsquelle/Building footprints
Organizing Shapes
Basic Shapes
Plain
Protruding
Recess
Basic Shapes/Logic
Plain by size
Shallow recess
Single protrusion Multiple protrusions
Deep recess
Less active(horizontal)
More active(vertical)
Plain by shape distortion
Plain with recess by shape distortion
With inner shape
Plain
Protruding
Protruding inside
With inner shape/logic
Plain
Inner Shapes
Proportionally small(few thoughts)
Distorted
Proportionally large(lots of thinking)
With inner shape/logic
Proportional size of arms
Protruding directions
Number of arms
Multiple inner shapes
Plain
Protruding
Protruding inside
Multiple inner shapes/logic
Few inner Shapes <
<Multiple inner Shapes
Open Shapes
Complex
Plain
Sprawling
Other
Triangle
Roundish
BASIC SHAPE (PHYSICAL ACTIVITY)
•rotation
•orientation (vertical/horizontal)
•level of distortion
•size
•protruding
•recess
PORTRUDING SHAPES (ARTEFACTS TO INTERACT WITH)
•Number of shapes
•relative size
•orientation & direction
•nesting
INNER SHAPE (INSIDE BODY/ EMOTIONS)
•proportional size
•position
•protruding inside
OPEN SHAPES (CONVERSATIONS/SAYING SOMTHING/PUTTING SOMTHING OUT)
•Lateral aperture
Logic Elements
Simplefied Shapes (30px square on 128px backdrop)
Simplefied Shapes (30px square on 128px backdrop)
Elements of a single day
Sleep
Brew coffee
dress walking to train station
wait for train wait and smoke and think a bit
sit on train, reading newspaper
walk & drink coffee
Dream
smoke & drink coffee
Restless sleep
drink coffee
Lying awake
smoke lying in bed with computer
More elements of a single day
Sit in front of com-puter/work
Listen to talk Listen to talk & tinker with computer
Discussion after talk
Having a conversation at lunch
Walking + conversa-tion
Sitting down + read-ing newspaper
Standing + conversa-tion
Lying/not thinking Lying awake/think-ing
Standing/not thinking much
walk, no thinkingSit, think, interact with artefact, absorb info
walk & conversation & thinking
Shape transforming logic
Lying¬ thinking Lying awake& thinking
Standing & not thinking much
walking & no think-ing
Sit, think, interact with artefact, absorb info(e.g. reading news on computer)
walk & conversation & thinking
5 actions over 3.5 days
smoked
(counter)
interested in total times you’ve done something
onTrain
(event + duration)
If the point of inter-est is when and how long something hap-pens
computer
(event + duration)
ate
(cathegorical counter + duration)
dinner
breakfast
Lunch
drank
(cathegorical counter)
interested in the occurrence of the same action with different units
tea
coffee
beer