IDAT306 Production of Space

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IDAT306 Production of Space
Alex Matthews
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Contents

• Starting point
• Site trip inspiration
• Spatial theories
• Project idea

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• Starting point

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• Starting point

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• Starting point

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• Starting point

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• Starting point

• Points of interest
• the real-time feedback the user expects in the
  virtual frame
• the peculiar simultaneous interaction between a
  physical 2d dimension and a completely different
  2d virtual dimension (xz, xy)
• the movement and limitations of movement in both
  physical and virtual frames.

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• Site trip inspiration

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• Site trip inspiration

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• Spatial theories

• Henri Lefebvre
• Space is not a scientific object removed from
  ideology or politics it has always been
  political and strategic.
• "Social space is a social product - the space
  produced in a certain manner serves as a tool of
  thought and action. It is not only a means of
  production but also a means of control, and hence
  of domination/power."

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• Spatial theories

• The Situationist International (SI)
• - scandal and subversion- political theories
  made popular by punk rock (blend of Marxism
  anarchism)"They criticised modern consumer
  society for alienating people and turning their
  lives into meaningless pursuits of commodities.
• Interesting note The Production of Space was
  originally published in French in 1974, and
  translated into English by the ex-situationist
  Donald Nicholson-Smith in 1991.

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• Spatial theories

Torsten Hagerstrand
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• Project idea

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• Project idea

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• Project idea

• dynamically input data to system
• real time data update
• consumer community
• users attach text/images, leave comments, give
  advice/suggestions
• gps cms for consumers