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AugmentingurbAn experiences:
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Carola Moujan Independent designer
Lecturer & Associate Researcher
École Camondo & UVHC (France)
interspace
21 balançoires by Daily Tous les jours (Montréal, 2011)
interface to
AugmentingplAces
technical device or aesthetic experience?
Image Theodore Lee / Flickr
# 1“The real places on the earth [...] are susceptible to continuous readings, which is almost certainly to say complex and ambiguous ones. It seems to be a characteristic of them, too, that they have extraordinary changeability, sometimes of use,
almost certainly of size”
Kent Bloomer & Charles W. Moore,Body, Memory and Architecture (1977)
# 2“Every place [...] is a not in the meshwok. The
knot [...] does not contain life but is rather formed of the very lines along which life is lived. These lines are bound together in the
knot, but they are not bound by it. ”
Tim Ingold, Lines. A Brief History (2007)
places are not ready-made experiences contained in a
physical location; places are events that
emerge whithin a particular site at a given time
Image Michael Yan / Flickr
placemaking = creating the conditions of
emergence of an event
“An event emerges from chaos provided that some kind of sieve intervenes”
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold (1988)
# 3
origin
an agent through which the site’s underlying forces are polarised and directed, allowing the emergence of the spatial form we name “place“
“It is not the object itself that is percieved, but the world, polarised in such a way that
the situation makes sense”
Gilbert Simondon, L’individuation psychique et collective (1989)
# 4
augmenting places=
articulating the relationship between
data and origin
A mAtteroF
relAtionships
“In a world where practicality and functionality can be taken for granted, the aesthetics of the post-optimal object could provide new
experiences of everyday life, new poetic dimensions.“
Anthony Dunne, Herzian Tales (1997)
# 5
informationor experience ?
An experience of origin,
not just its narrative
Adapted from Sharon Zukin’s Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (2010)
Two ForMs
Left : Totem Urbain (JC Decaux, 2007)
Right: iGirouette (Vincent Autin / Biin, 2009)
oNe FUNCTioN
From interFAce
to interspAce
information : a goalvs
information as a triggerfor experiences
interspace:experience of multiple dimensions co-existing
within a unified perception of reality
“An experience has a unity that gives it its name, that meal, that storm, that rupture of friendship. The existence of this unity is
constituted by a single quality that pervades the entire experience in spite of the variation of its
constituent parts”
John Dewey, Art As experience (1934)
# 6
being guidedor
“being there” ?
Top : A smartphone displaying
Google Maps®
Right: No Place Like Home GPS shoes
(Dominic WIlcox, 2011)
Image William Hook / Flickr Images © Dominic WIlcox
“Design is [...] the integration of technological, social and economic requirements, biological necessities, and the psychophysical effects of
materials, shape, color, volume and space: thinking in relationships”
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion (1947)
# 7
