PATH A PASSAGE FROM PLACE TO PLACE NOT A PLACE IN ITSELF NOT A PLACE IN ITSELF
PLACEMAKING Placemaking is a term that began to be used in the 1970s by architects and planners to describe the process of creating squares, plazas, parks, streets and waterfronts that will f attract people because they are pleasurable or interesting. Landscape often plays an important role in the design process. http://www.wikipedia.org/
Placemaking is the art of creating public "places places of the soul" that uplift and help us connect to each other and to our environment. —PPS member
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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. —PPS member
•Creating landscapes •Creating Creating interest interest •Connecting to the environment (outside environment perhaps) •Creating places of pause •Creating places for human connection and interaction •Since you are ‘NOWHERE’, we are dealing with a blank slate which can allow you to chose to be anywhere you want to be (perhaps virtually)
MAKING ‘SOMEWHERE’
SEEING SOMEWHERE BEING SOMEWHERE
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 one’s pace or stopping slowly unvails an image leading to discovery. A landscape of pause 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.
SCENARIO ONE. v2_ wonder leads to discovery A bottom portion of a projected video is pixelated until a stationary presence in sensed. The projected sky 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 allowing 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 end of 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.
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 one’s own terms, and at a pace adapted to their movement.
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 image located somehwere on a pixelated puzzle wall responds. The longer you stay on a tile, the sharper the image becomes; also, the longer you stay, the longer it takes for the image to fade back into pixels. Collaborative efforts can make large pieces of a wall come into focus revealing a significant chunk of the projected video. The walls become registers of the inhabitation of the space.
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 response pixelating/blurring--focusing/sharpening cycles
FAST PACED CENTRAL ENVIONMENT
FAST PROJECTED VIDEO RESPONSE
MEDITATIVE, SLOWPACED PERIPHERY ENVIRONMENT
SLOW PROJECTED VIDEO RESPONSE
PARAMETER_nature of projected images Depending on which zone one finds oneself in the 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 projects 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.
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PARAMETER_nature of projected images The project proposes an ancient method of navigating, based on the simple principles of the sun’s 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 different 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 nostalgia, 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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PATH TIME ZONES_ frozen time
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A scheme was devised which divided the PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES 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 are given 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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A scheme was devised which divided the PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES 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 are given 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 A scheme was devised which divided the PATH into the 24 STANDARD TIME ZONES 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 are given the opportunity to not only go to a new space and geographical place, but also to a chosen time of day.
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. 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 experiencing 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 realities of Toronto’s real time.
TONGA HAWAII ANCHORAGE LOS ANGELES DENVER MEXICO NEW YORK MANAUS BUENOS AIRES S. SANDWITCH IS.
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TAKE PART IN THE EDUCATION _let Toronto witness your world
TORONTO TIME PATH _GIVING TORONTO WINDOWS INTO WORLD CULTURE AND EVERYDAY RITUALS
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