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APASSAGEFROMPLACETOPLACENOT A PLACE IN ITSELF


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"the soul" that uplift and help us connect to each

other and to our environment.PPS member

PLACEMAKING


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PLACEMAKING


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PLACELESSNESS


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NOWHERE


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Placemaking is the art of creating public "places of the soul" that uplift and help us

connect to each other and to our environment.

Creatinglandscapes Connectingtotheenvironment(outsideenvironmentperhaps)CreatingplacesofpauseCreatingplacesforhumanconnectionandinteractionSinceyouareNOWHERE,wearedealingwithablankslatewhichcanallowyoutochosetobeanywhereyouwanttobe(perhapsvirtually)

MAKINGSOMEWHERE


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SEEINGSOMEWHEREBEINGSOMEWHERE


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SCENARIO ONE_wonder leads to discovery

A projected video is pixelated until a motion sensor senses

a stopped presence. A person who pauses brings the

projected image into focus. Slowing down ones pace or

stopping slowly unvails an image leading to discovery.

A landscape ofpause furniture is put in place to encourage

and facilitate discoverability. The furniture responds to

traffic volumes, as to not impede movement during times

of high traffic. A people count is set up at both ends of the

corridor, calculating traffic volume each minute in order to

continually optimize a furniture setup for the space. The

space is adjusted according to occupancy, with a fitting

ratio of landsape to passage area.


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SCENARIO ONE. v2_

wonder leads to discovery

A bottom portion of a projected video is pixelated

until a stationary presence in sensed. The projectedsky remains unfaffected by human movement and

interaction with the art piece; only the city interacts

by revealing itself when movement slows and stops.

The bottom part of the video comes into focus allow-

ing people to discoved the projected image of an

iconic skyline one piece at a time, the way they would

do so if physically present in a new location. Putting

the puzzle pieces together, one would eventually

realize the geographical location of the live feed.

The corridor space changes throughout the day

according ot the volume of traffic, with a landscape

emerging as the corridors die down. Walls slide out

becoming hills to sit on and take in the projected

view. The passageways become intentional places of

pause, impeding movement, strongly suggesting rest.

As to nature of the projected videos, they would be

non-stop real time videos of sunrises in the east endof the PATH, sunsets in the west end, with middle of

the day images in the central PATH corridors. PATH

users would witness, throughout the day, different

cities beginning or ending their day as it happens.


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SCENARIO TWO_a place that follows you

The projected video is pixelated and illegible until a presence is sensed in front of it,

whether the presence be moving or stationary. The image comes into focus only for as

long as the person is occupying the space in front of it. A crowded, fast paced corridor will

respond in images going in and out of focus at a rapid rate, visualizing the energy of the

space. This scenario allows one to discover a space on ones own terms, and at a pace

adapted to their movement.


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SCENARIO THREE_memory, discovery, play

Grid-like arrays of sensors are implanted into the flooring system of the PLAY SQUARE.

Every time someone inhabits or passes over a tile with a sensor, a corresponding imag

located somehwere on a pixelated puzzle wall responds. The longer you stay on a tile,

sharper the image becomes; also, the longer you stay, the longer it takes for the image

fade back into pixels. Collaborative efforts can make large pieces of a wall come into fo

revealing a significant chunk of the projected video. The walls become registers of the

inhabitation of the space.


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FAST

PROJECTED

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MEDITATIVE,

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RESPONSE TO SENSED CHANGE_

speed of response as the indicator of location

The closer one is to the centre of the PATH, the quicker

the sensors actuate change. For example, on the

periphery one has to stay some time to make

pixelated image come into focus; while in the centre,

once a presence is sensed the change is almost

instantenous.

RARAMETER_

speed of video responsepixelating/blurring--focusing/sharpening cycles


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PARAMETER_nature of projected images

Depending on which zone one finds oneself in t he PATH system, the nature of projected images changes.

The west side provides a constant live feed of images of sunsets around the world, the central zone proj-

ects daytime scenery and activity, while the east projects live videos of the rising sun over iconic skylines.

Time remains frozen in the differnt zones as the live feed cameras chase the sun around the globe.

WEST CENTRAL EAST


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PARAMETER_nature of projected images

The project proposes an ancient method of navigating,

based on the simple principles of the suns location in

the sky; it is a universal truth across the globe that the

sun rises in the East and sets in the West. The path

system temporally travels across the globe following

the sun, constantly providing windows into alternative

time zones, showing how a day passes through differ-

ent cities and continets. Time in the PATH is a constant;only the geographical location of projected videos

changes.

The project adresses the multicultural aspect of

Toronto and its inhabitants. It places in their daily

path something they can connect to, a piece of nostal-

gia, a memory of their motherland. The video is

projected with the hopes of making people pause in

the PATH.

5 cameras are installed in various locations in China. These

cameras would play live feed from China in the appropriate

designated time zones of the path. A visitor of the path system

would have the opportunity to watch the day unforld in China

throughout the day, in different locations of the PATH system.


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STANDARD TIME ZONES OF THE WORLD


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Anchorage

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Los Angeles

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New York

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Istanbul

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Moscow

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Samara

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Beijing

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PATH TIME ZONES_

frozen time

A scheme was devised which divided the

PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES


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of the world. The project gives time a

spatial dimension. Each of the zones

preserves a certain hour of the day; live

feed from places where the assigned hour

is at that moment real time is projected in

the space. Inhabitants of the PATH aregiven the opportunity to not only go to a

new space and geographical place, but

also to a chosen time of day.

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PATH TIME ZONES_

frozen time


PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES


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the space. Inhabitants of the PATH are

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PATH TIME ZONES_

frozen time


PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES23:00


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the space. Inhabitants of the PATH are

given the opportunity to not only go to a



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PATH TIME ZONES_

time as a system of organisation

Time in the PATH system is organized in a continuous manner,

allowing inhabitants to create cognitive maps of the space.

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The PATH system is given a layer of information and an

organizing system that people intuitively understand, easing

thier common frustration with being lost and being unable to

tell direction. One always understands that 3 is before 4, and

that 5 follows it. The PATH TIME ZONES system makes no

relation to the above ground map; rather it creates a new and

completely unrelated basic system of organization and

sequencing.

PATH TIME ZONES_

time as destination and journey

The PATH TIME ZONES system allows one to travel the journey

of a full 24 hour day in a fragment of that time, always experi-

encing real time during the journey Or alternatively on a


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encing real time during the journey. Or alternatively, on a

whim, inhabitants of the PATH can travel to a particular

desired time (and location) and expereince the activities

associated with that time (and location), escaping the reali-

ties of Torontos real time.

TONGA

ANCHORAGE

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AUCKLAND

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SYDNEY

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TOKYO

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BEIJING

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SINGAPORE

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MUMBAI

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TORONTOTIME PATH_GIVING TORONTO WINDOWS INTO WORLD CULTURE AND EVERYDAY RITUALS

TAKE PART IN THE EDUCATION

_let Toronto witness your world

If you know of an interesting every


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If you know of an interesting every-

day ritual which is particular to your

county/city of residence, SHARE IT

WITH TORONTO! Fill out the belowform and we will send you a camera

kit for you to install, so that we can

capture the event as it happens ev-

eryday and play it live to our Toronto

PATH visitors. DOWNLOAD FORM

24 HOUR time archive_23 PLAYBACK.1 LIVEClick on a particular hour to see where

our cameras have been today to wit-ness that particular hour and the activi-

ties associated with it.

24 HOUR city archive_23 PLAYBACK.1 LIVEClick on a city to view the last 24 hours

of footage recorded in 24 different lo-

cations within that city, giving you

glimpses into local culture and hourly

customs of that particular location.

24 HOURS LIVE_0 PLAYBACK.24 LIVEClick on a time to be taken to place

where that time is real time. See what

the people in the Toronto PATH system

are seeing right now.

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