Adin & Christopher
THEME:
The city Rotterdam
OUR MAIN RESEARCH QUESTION:
What can we learn from the way of movement in Rotterdam?
Subquestions
- How much movement is there in Rotterdam? And what does this say about the city and it's citizens?
- How can you measure movement? And how can you make this clear in an installation
The city and the human Body
- Movement
- Observement
- Communication
Research about the connection between the city and the body
D-Toren:
A sculpture placed in a suburb.
Through a survey, the mood of the area is checked and is shown in the sculpture by emitting a colour which corresponds with a mood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjXj0E-2GFY
http://www.d-toren.nl/site/
Stadsindex Rotterdam:
Raw data about different topics in the city of Rotterdam.
http://www.stadindex.nl/rotterdam
http://www.rotterdam.nl/Clusters/RSO/Document%202013/OBI/Publicaties/13-
A-0223%20Tabellenrapport%20Verplaatsingen%20in%20Rotterdam,%20stadsregio
%20en%20Nederland,%202004%20-%202012.pdf
Monolitt, City mood sculpture:
The waist-high object identifies the emotions in tweets, matches the emotion to a predetermined colour, and oozes that colour in the paint out of the top.
http://io9.com/a-sculpture-shows-a-citys-mood-by-translating-tweets-in-1639424245