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Thinking, Watching, and Drawing Motion Elizabeth Goodman [email protected] @egoodman

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A presentation to Wendy Ju's architecture seminar at UC Berkeley, Architecture and Motion. September 20, 2012.

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Thinking, Watching, and Drawing Motion

Elizabeth Goodman [email protected] @egoodman

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THINKING MOTION

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Motion = (Time, Location)

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WATCHING MOTION

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Setha Low On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture 2000

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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)

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Observing and recording

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Existing data Travel time maps - London MySociety and Stamen Design 2007

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Automated tracking Trash | Track MIT Senseable Cities 2009 http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/

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REPRESENTING MOTION

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SYMBOL SYSTEMS

Representing motion

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Arrows

Louis Kahn Philadelphia Planning Study 1953 From Alison Smithson (ed.), Team 10 Primer (1968),

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Alphabets Rudolf Laban Schrifttanz 1928

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Icons

http://gesturecons.com/

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Color-coding

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TRACES

Representing motion

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Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Motion Study

1913

Tasks

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Habits Amsterdam Real Time

Waag Society http://realtime.waag.org/

2009

Photo from www.experimentsinmotion.com/

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Taxi cabs

Cabspotting Exploratorium, Yellow Cab, and Stamen Design 2006 http://cabspotting.org

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Flight patterns

Aaron Koblin Flight patterns 2006

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INVISIBLE DYNAMICS

Representing motion

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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

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Wind

Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas http://hint.fm/wind/ 2012

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UNDERMINING THE GRID

Representing motion

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“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

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Emotional states Guy Debord Guide Psychogeographique de Paris (Psychographic Guide to Paris) 1957

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DESIGN FROM MOTION

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Nuage Vert HeHe 2011 hehe.org2.free.fr Photo: Yuki Kawamura

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Jetsam Intel Research 2005 www.urban-atmospheres.net

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Trash can

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Knowing when to stop

America Revealed: Pizza Delivery PBS America 2012

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Resources

Experiments in Motion www.experimentsinmotion.com pinterest.com/experimotion

www.informationisbeautiful.net www. flowingdata.com