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ProposalExploring a topic that you could link to

everyday things you do. As part of a generation of the web 2.0 where interactivity is found almost everywhere online. Finding a solution through experimentation of different media and exploration about the topic. And making an outcome that would show the relationship between interactivity and the topic chosen. Targeting your audience and engaging them to do a similar activity and making it easy and simple to understand.

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Psychogeography was first defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals”.

Guy Debord’s interpretation of this behavior was based from the Lettrist and Situationist movement - ‘Drunken search for Prostitutes’. ‘Dérive - to drift’ is letting oneself float or drift in the city. Doing this each person will find their own ambient unities of a specific. Psychogeographique de Paris, is an example of a Psychogeographic map by Guy Debord.

This map shows his interpretation of the map of Paris. It is shows in several different places grouped together that are distinct to that neighbourhood. The red arrows represents the most frequent crossing between the islands of the urban archipel. It is all about breaking the rules of wandering around the city, cut through little alley ways to explore the city. Senses are also a part of your journey. Making different parts of the city almost brings you to a whole different place.

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‘Today we live, work and ROAM in a world of perpetual motion. The mobility of people, goods, information and services confronts, permeates and saturates our everyday existence.’ - Anthony Hoete, Zaha Hadid (2003) – ROAM: Readers on the Aesthetics of Mobility

Reading the book ROAM: A Reader in the Aesthetics of Mobility I have discovered a whole different way of looking at maps. The visualisation created by designers are somewhat abstract. It really reflects Guy Debord idea of exploring the city in a fun way.

The work of Yuri Suzuki’s London Underground Circuit Map Radio is a different way of representing a place. The London underground map itself is an amazing map to recreate it in a visual manner. Yuri’s work inspired me to use a different medium to interpret my idea.

The works of Jun Pak and Cole Reynold’s Fractal Boundaries - Re-mapping the city with scales and degrees of proximity. And also Mie Miyamotos translation of mobility in the city. She records her journey throughout London for 5 years Where she maps the places she goes to and captures pictures of people in that area then recreates this panoramic map.

Mie Miyamotosection(s): london_ 5 places of london: victoria

Yuri SuzukiLondon Underground Circuit Map Radio

http://www.miemiyamoto.com/taxonomy/tax_sec_l5.htmlhttp://imaginarymuseum.org/LPG/Mapsitu1.htmhttp://www.archiprix.org/2013/index.php?project=2969http://www.designboom.com/technology/yuri-suzuki-london-underground-cir-cuit-map-radio/Zaha Hadid ROAM: Reader on the Aesthetics of Mobility - Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2003

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Geo-TaggingGeotagging is a process of adding geographical identification to various media such as photos, videos, codes, this allows the users to telll the location of the content. Using google tracks I used the term ‘geotagging’ as a process of tagging (graffiti) an area.

TracksUsing google tracks to record my everyday travelling from home to work, uni to home, and pretty much all the walking and driving I do. I then overlayed them together to create this image to see any patterns or links o n my mobility.

ProcessingRe-creating a map using a priocessing sketch. The continuing lines represents the link of mobility and different points of a city.

PsychogeographyI travelled to a city which is unknwon for me, Exeter City. To experience first-hand psychogeography and exploring the city that i have no knowledge of its history whatsoever and just drift away.

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As an international student travelling to different country was a big part of my life. Now as my part-time job I get to travel up and down the city and country. So I manage to use this as an advantage to become my primary research/experience.

The website is the final outcome of series of experimentation. As part of a Web 2.0 interaction between the audience it is a good way to represent the majority of people who use the internet. We interact and we travel around the world wide web. The website consist of the idea of geotagging a place throughout my journey, and also the map being created through a simple sketch in Processing. The one continuous line shows how my travelling was and that this line connects every single area that I have discovered in that city. The colour of the lines shows the different impression I get on the whole entirety of the exploration.This journey is similar to a Psychogeography where you start somewhere and you never know what (where) website you mind end up.

This website is a representation of the journey I did to Exeter and to document my travel I created this interactive map so that the audience can see how I see and remapped the City. Having experienced this Psychogeographic journey I found myself enjoying it and forgot that I am doing it as a project. That is why it is very easy for anyone to do such journey. And logging or recording what they have found without the use of map.