alternative mapping

Guide to Noticing Campus - Upload a Document to Scribd

tour guides (those printed and those people) can often be boring. they usually highlight the "important," but unfortunately predictable, aspects of an area. in recalling our tours of campus at orientation, my group agreed to create an upbeat, flexible, and  non-traditional guide to campus. we wanted to stray away from the "stop, look and go" aspects of some guides. we hoped those following the guide would interact with space... to not just stand in it and move through it, but to notice and experience it. and with their own actions, they would affect the guide to create a personalized experience. to document their individual journey the guide instructed for photographs to be taken. we hoped that people would invest themselves into creating truly unique and interesting compositions. we wanted to break the typical centered, brightly light touristy photo and have a final product of a collection of pictures that speak artistically of the persons adventure. at the very end of the guide the travelers are asked to upload their photos to a public website. there they can share their photos and view the work of other people who have followed the guide. 

group members: ryan lee and marissa sorek 

spatial intervention pictures

our intent with this project was to break the boundaries of a typical screen and projection relationship. we wanted the screen to no longer be rectangular or to remain on one plane. we created several organic shapes and we altered transparency by playing with shadow and translucent material. by cutting out the center of certain shapes and placing them in front of the others, we fragmented the projected image. we wanted to take common things, things we were all very familiar with, and recreate them. we chose the particular screen saver because it is an image we frequently see, but in this setting it has an entirely different impact.

group members: nader boraie, jamie cucalon, marissa sorek

spatial intervention video