thinking, watching, drawing motion

Thinking, Watching, and Drawing Motion

Elizabeth Goodman egoodman@ischool.berkeley.edu @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