Group ZSM

post-post luftwaffe - paul

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This strategy proposes that incremental changes over time to the city of London will mutate its shape thus enabling growth. Based on analysis of the past and current trends it aims to make predictions on the future of the city. Central to the strategy is a reconfiguration of the core of the city with the removal of non essential retail based uses as these activities become established in the virtual world. In turn online communities such as facebook will emerge into the real world as people wish to interact face to face in newly expropriated spaces. In addition the existing transport infrastructure will be transformed into an intelligent responsive network, this will be combined with the introduction of car free zones, which will initially be implemented in the city core. The strategy explores the repercussions of a number of modifications as drivers of change and the resulting mutation to the city’s shape, which is turned inside out.

The image above shows the first stage (2050) which is the driver of the city's mutation which by 2100 will be turned inside out. I am a bit pushed for time so unlikely that I will have more than two a1 sheets to give an overview of my strategy.

THE TIDE CITY - Sunny

progess

Fabian, I added on to my "richter-scale" diagram, and I found an old London bombsite map, which I'm painstakingly (!) tracing in illustrator. What do you think?

Memories in the City- Muna (ZSM)

So far this week, Group ZSM have been doing some research in various areas and in different topics. Some topics we found interesting were the ideas of memory and nostalgia and identity in the city. I came across a great website, which wishes to preserve and appreciate the memories in the city of New York.

http://www.cityofmemory.org/map/index.php

We went to a few chosen areas in London, to try to get a feel for the place and it's identity. We wanted to understand different areas in London, so we went to some specific chosen areas in different zones. Also we have been reading about memory, and how we form memories to try to try and understand it better.

"Images must be lively, active striking, charged with emotional effects so that they may pass through the doors of the storehouse of memory." Giordano Bruno, 1591

Image from Hillingdon

London Research

Just came across a really nice bookmark in my collection I have forgotten about. VISUALCOMPLEXITY a great collection of ways to visualize information.
This example was created by using the tool processing. A quite a simple to use java based pice of software developed by students at MIT. This example here visualizes travel times on the london tube network.





(Both images from: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=260) See the applet at work HERE. Author Tom Carden 2005.

You might find further examples that are inspirational for your presentations in one week's time (not in therms of programming but in terms of graphics).