Last August
the 'Atelier Rijksbouwmeester' When
When the 'Atelier Rijksbouwmeester' (governemental architect)
approached socialfiction.org to cooperate on an assignment they were
working on for the city of Dordrecht. What they were interested in finding
out was how psychogeography could help them to better understand a certain
area called the Hofkwartier.
This invitation
resulted in a psychogeographical experiment on the 3rd of September
2003. This experiment had two goals: bringing together people who are
at this moment important in the process of the future refurnishing of
the Hofkwartier & to show them like new this small bit of Dordrecht
that they know by heart. Also it was used as an occasion for data-retrieval
in order to be able to take the psychogeogram of the Hofkwartier & it's
surrounding.
The experiment
consisted of 2 parts. The first was designed to take the emogram of
the Hofkwartier: all participants were asked to walk every street in
the Hofkwartier & give a minimum of 1 & a maximum of 3 first impressions.
This took 15/20 minutes.
The second
experiment was designed to take the bolagram of central Dordrecht as
it enfolded from the Hofkwartier. From wherever they were participants
started their walking algorithm & continued this for one hour. Every
time a distinction was perceived the place was marked on a map.
The statistics
are as following: 13 psychogeographers together collected some 120 impressions
for the emogram & over 100 points on the map.
The resulting
-grams tend to be very large in size but reasonable in download time.
They were made using Graphviz,
designed by AT&T Labs-research labs.
Read
more about the concepts here mentioned
A
report of the walk by Sebas Veldhuizen for Archined
