Category: Thesis

Places, Nov 2nd,2011

  • Typology of Open Space/Public place
    • Community Design in Landscape Architecture
    • from ‘Urban Open Space’, Mark Francis, 2003, P6-7
      • Typology
      • Public Parks
        • Downtown Parks
        • Commons
        • Neighborhood Park
        • MiniPark
      • Squares and Plazas
        • Central Square
      • Memorials
      • Markets
      • Streets
        • Pedestrian Sidewalks
        • Pedestrian Mall
        • Transit Mall
        • Trafgic Restricted Streets
        • Town Trails
      • Playgrounds
        • Playground
        • School Yard
      • Community Open Spaces
        • Community Garden/Park
      • Greenways and Linear Parkways
      • Urban Wilderness
      • Atrium/Indoor Marketplaces
        • Atrium
        • Marketplace / Downtown Shopping Center
      • Found / neighborhood Spaces
        • Everyday Spaces
        • Neighborhood Spaces
      • Waterfronts
  • Concepts to across/network boundaries of scales.
    • Social Sculpture in Public Art
      • Trees (Joseph Beuys)
    • Henry Jenkins’ Transmedia Storytelling<Smart things chapter12
      • idea: mobile phone and light
        • idea: download wallpaper for mobile phone and environment reacts to the color scheme of it
        • idea: Walkman street
      • idea: Light to mobilephone
        • receive ‘light’ from light to mobilephone
          • ‘stamp rarry’ ish?
      • idea: IC card and light
        • special SUICA and special reaction to it (may include sound identity)>CARD is a ticket to join something wonderful <> Navi for elder scenario (in this scenario, card also works as elder care(make navigation lights on))
        • White to amber scenario: donate money to rent special IC card. Then the place scan the RFID…..
    • Patchwork: Design for ecological democracy
  • Interaction Design & CHI
    • Wallet size lantern (Seitinger)
    • Augmented Street Light(Seitinger)
    • Media Facades
    • Smart Things Chapter12 Scales+Others
      • Covert 1cm
      • Mobile 10cm
      • Personal 1m
      • Environmental 10m
      • Architectural 100m
      • Urban 1km
    • Henry Jenkins’ Transmedia Storytelling
  • Typology from Urban Lighting Design
    • from Light for Cities
    • 2. Typology
      • Traveling by Car
        • Main roads and side streets
        • Bridges
        • Roundabouts
        • Traffic signals
        • Multi-storey car parks
        • Car parks
        • Petrol(gas) stations
        • Stop and go
        • P70
      • On Foot
        • Squares
        • Footpaths and sidewalks
        • Trees
        • Facades and illuminated advertising
        • Shop windows
        • Underground stations
        • Boulevards

Isuues, Problems. Nov2nd

  • Familiar Stranger (Eric Paulos/ Milgram)
  • Public privacy (Urban invention)
  • Connect to another world(Open space book)
  • Praise shadow (Tanizaki/Zumtoh)
  • Social Sculpture(Joseph Beuys)
  • Imaginarity (Kevin Lynch)
  • Multi Use
    • http://www.pps.org/multi-use/
    • White to Amber Scenario
ISSUES in Urban Open Space Community Design in Landscape Architecture Social Sculpture in Public Art Interaction Design & CHI Urban Lighting Fieldwork/Sociology/Phychology OpenLight
Hard Edge/Soft Edge: Edge between space and building Soft and lively facade vs closed facade(Cities for People PP78-79) Olafur eliason
  • Media Facade
  • Jason burges
 Facade light-up  XX
Engagement with local
 Stewardship(Design for Ecological Democracy)
  • Miyajima(Conflict between local and artwork)
  • ‘Locality'(Urban Intervention)
 Wish on lantern:Buddha’s birthday
Public Privacy
  • ‘Public Privacy'(Urban Intervention)
Flexible Public and Private
  • ‘Public Privacy'(Urban Intervention)
Praise darkness
  Peter Zumtor  Book: 陰影礼賛
Navigation  Seoul Art Center, Lobby
Self Expression
User involvement in design process
Direct Participation
  • 7000 oaks
  • Miyajima
  • Rozano Hemel
  • Burble
  • LaserTag
  • Media Facade(
NEEDS: Comfort
  • Basic need(Public Space PP92)
NEEDS:Active Engagement
  • Contact with people(Public Space PP118)
  •  (..with people)
NEEDS:Passive Engagement
  • (..with the environment) watching scene  leads “relax’
  • Public Space pp105
  • Whyte p13
  • Art w/o participation
  • Observe performers(Public space, pp107)
  • (..with other people)Familiar Stranger Project(Paulos)
  • Spectator’s experience
  • Familiar Stranger(Milgram)
Visualization of collective action
Self-reinforcing process
NEEDS: Life in found space
  • The steps to NY Library(Public Spaces, pp109)
  • Activation(Urban Intervention)
  • (..with environment)Social Signifer(Norman)
Multi-use
  • Multi-use vs Zoning
  • Pronto shop lighting Day and Night
  • Health inspection in subway car, Seoul
  • Scenario: White to Amber
Conflict between cars and walkers
Inclusive: Eyes for weak Kawamata(Amsterdam project)
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Connect to Another world

 

Thesis Statement, as of Nov 2nd, 2011

As of Nov2nd, 2011
  • Where: Urban Open Space (Ars Electronica Center and/or a specific site: assuming a public plaza where preconception is *bad*)
  • What/Goal: Create, show and prove a several designs which achieve Placemaking: making space to place by action of its users. Change preconception of a space to something significant to be said as a place.
  • Why: Design of urban open space has certain limitation to follow fast changing nature of society and its activities because of its static material, low frequency of renovation and lack of communication with its users in design process. We need something to fill this gap to keep the space active as a keystone of a city.
Fast changing societyが具体的に何をさすのか、その問題にopen spaceデザインがどのように対応できていて、できていないのか。問題においつくスピードが問題なのか。
  • How: Community Art and Design have a concept of  direct participation to compromise these limits of urban design. And activities with the concept are often called Placemaking effort. Designs we introduce in this research also amplifies the concept into action using following two materials and techniques.
    • 1:Lighting and theater lighting technique to change urban space visually in dynamic but temporary sense.
    • 2: To emphasize capability of participation, adaptation and dynamic change, we also use  ICT technology such as embedded/mobile sensors and network to connect altogether.

ああ、そういうアートとデザインがあって、すでに補完してくれていてよかったね、で終わってしまう。

何故この２つの素材と技術が必要なのかが不明瞭。

  • For Whom: Group of end users of the place. Mostly residents and commuters work nearby. If the place coexists commercial activities, visitors/customers are also important.
  • When: ‘Design of evening time’ :when they pass-by, when they kill time and also when lighting has its max value in terms of aesthetics.

Structure of the research: Memo Nov2nd

Urban Open Space Community Design
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Landscape Architecture		 Social Sculpture
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Public Art		 Interaction Design & CHI Urban Lighting Open Light
Issues Hard Edge / Soft Edge
Navigation
Allegory
Planting
Places
Times Every day
Periodical
Event
Happening/Spectacle
 Participants  1~10
10~100
100~1,000
1,000~10,000

Process

  • Field Work
    • Literature Review
    • Field Observation
  • Modeling
    • Places, People, Issues
  • Scenario
  • Prototyping and trial
    • Role-play on site
    • on-site/afterwords interview/inquiry
  • Feedback to Scenario

Definition of Openness in this research

  • Open Access to Existing Lights
    • On/Off
    • Color
  • Open–super mobility of lights
    • Portable Streetlight?
  • Link
    • of lights
    • of user-lights
    • of users
  • オープンの人間関係。ライトを持つ側と、それを利用する側。利用者がライトをもっている場合は、場所を管理する側との関係？どのように交換可能なのか？それぞれの場合になにが　有益で、何が問題になるか？

Community

  • Involvement of existing community
    • Community of practice Wikipedia
      • Such as dance club at Keio Campus
    • Housing community
    • Close and small circle of friends/ family
  • The system forges new community
    • Becomes ‘Existing community’ in process
  • Weak tie:

Place

  • Typology of Open Space/Public place
    • Community Design
      in
      Landscape Architecture
  • Typology where art/interaction design can expand those two.
    • Social Sculpture
      in
      Public Art
  • Interaction Design & CHI
  • Typology  from Light /City
    • Urban Lighting

Participation

  • Ladder of participation (in community design primer)
  • Passive
    • Sensor, Piggy-back info gathering(i.e Suica)
  • Semi-Active
    • Sensor, but being aware of
      • Camera with monitor
      • Public control panel
  • Active(within given freedom)
    • Apps, Webpage control panel of Mobile device
      • Proximity based
      • Limitation of access within the area
    • Low-tech participation
      • Kyota Takahashi’s way ( in Yokohama)
  • Active(involved in design /  improve / maintenance process)

Overview (as of Oct 20th)

  • OpenLight
    • Openness: Participative Urban Landscape (with light)
    • Direct Participation
      • Social Sculpture
      • Design for Ecological Democracy
      • Place Making
  • Goal of the research
    • Contribute methods and cases of “Placemaking efforts” to the field of
      • Public Art
      • Urban Landscape/Lighting Design
    • Solve design challenges
      • Flip conflict between different users to trigger shared moments
      • Conflict between multiple usages of the place
      • Scalability. 1,10,100,1000 users
    • Process of the research
      • Modeling
        • Places
        • Users
        • Issues
        • Interactions
      • Scenarios
      • Evaluations
      • Prototyping
        • Garage style: for preparation and check technical feasibility
        • In real setting: grounding hypothesis
        • Improved

Scenario: A light treats you:2 allegory もてなす光：２　寓話

  • もてなすインタラクション。
    • ”少し明るくしてもらえませんか？””はい、これでどうですか？”
    • オープンスペースにこれがある意味。節電、安全という機能と表裏いったいに、人の存在をあたたかく浮かびあがらせる。使用者にとっての意味と、その場所にいる他者にとっての意味。
    • その場所のイメージが、前後でどうかわるのか？
    • どのような場所の、どのような問題、特徴に関わることができるのか？
    • siriは目新しいが、飽きる人もいる。この場合は？単に便利な明かりがオープンスペースにある以上の意味は？
      • 広場に複数の明かりがあり、それぞれにマイクがついていて、そこにいる人の声の指示でついたりきえたり、ディ無したりするとする。
      • 全体で使える電力の総量は決まっている。どこかが明るくなれば、ほかが押しなべてくらくなることになる。
      • （なぜ声なのか、なんで（たしか、ミラノでのたくらむの作品のように）触るインタラクションじゃないの？
      • 声なのは、（スイッチを切るような）個人の行動というよりも、目線をあさせての人同士の対話が、この状態を動かしてゆくのだと考えるため。
      • どのような状態で、どのような反応、均衡、状態の変化への対応が起こるのか。それに対して、人は同感じるのか。
      • 世の中の状態のアレゴリー。限られたエネルギー、均等に与えられるべくおかれているもの、声をあげることからはじまる対話、答えとゴールはなく、環境がある。
      • 少し複雑になるが、外部からの事件？がある。急な電圧低下、など。
      • ここでえら得た知見が、”役に立つ”デザインのものになるという想定。

Scenario: A light treats you:1 もてなす光：１

  • もてなすインタラクション。
    • ”少し明るくしてもらえませんか？””はい、これでどうですか？”
    • オープンスペースにこれがある意味。節電、安全という機能と表裏いったいに、人の存在をあたたかく浮かびあがらせる。使用者にとっての意味と、その場所にいる他者にとっての意味。
    • その場所のイメージが、前後でどうかわるのか？
    • どのような場所の、どのような問題、特徴に関わることができるのか？

Scenario: For dancers on streets/Flexible use of existing space

Title For dancers on streets
Theme —
Place —
Time/Occasion —
People —
Interaction/
Participation
Lighting
—

  • 自ら場所に働きかける。場所も呼応する。
  • 慶応校舎にいるダンスチームやスケーボー。
  • 慶応大学ダンスサークルrevolve
  • または、趣味？の老人たち
  • または、子供
  • なにかをするために、場所をみつけて、そこを自分たちのよいように作り変える。
  • その場に使用可能な既存の明かりがあれば、それも新しい環境の一部になる。
  • ひとつのあかりでなく、メンバーが持ち寄ったあかりが、リンクして、大きな明かりになる。
  • Link to existing light (includes Bake/Car
  • Mobile cast Light or Sheet light
  • Light+Battery
  • Control from Handy Device/Audio device

Scenario: Cars parked along sidewalks as street lightings

Title Cars parked along sidewalks as street lightings
Theme Share, VtoX(Vehicle to x)
Place Street, sidewalk, open parking lot
Time/Occasion Evening
People —
Interaction/
Participation
Lighting
—

  • Reference: Road clean cars have light to lit part of sidewalk.
  • EV
  • Sensor
  • Light
  • Owner of a car may select following ‘openness’ options
        • Open light to public
  • only for me
  • for friends

 

 

 

  • そもそも、EVでなければならないわけではない
    • 充分な電気をもっていて、だから充分に明るく照らせて
    • それをモバイルに動かすことができて
    • いれば、程度の差はあれ、このシナリオにのる。
  • 車をroadsideに停めるのは、ヨーロッパと北米の習慣（南米は？）アジアでは酸くない。＞デモは、共同研究先のヨーロッパの都市でやってはどうか？
  • 例：Selfishなのは、暴走族が車の下に点ける光
  • 一方で、道路清掃車にもそういうのついている
  • 安全、安心、自己表現、都市空間のクオリティー、全部まとめた案。
  • ナビで明かりがあるといい場所がわかる そこは駐車代安い。街の光に貢献する自由
  • Level of engagement (from car owner’s viewpoint)
  1. no sharing
  2. 提供
  3. Free access (upon request)
    1. First, a Request received
    2. Then Allow control
    3. 派手なパフォーマンス用（ダンス部シナリオ？）