Making the Invisible Visible

http://prezi.com/ezexr5mon-l5/copy-of-mapping-immigration/

Through this Prezi presentation, we will be looking at my explorations into Canadian Immigration as well as some ideas as to how to make immigration stories and resources more visible.

map of Ottawa

scrabbling urban planning

the game reveals the players' personality...

                               would you a) try to use the best of the given letters to make good words, 

                                           or b) aim only for double/triple word/letter scores,

                                           or c) both...?

                                            if a), you are a student

                                            if b), you are a developer

                                            if c), you are an architect

map of Canada

potato pancake breakfast

(ingredients: potato, onion, bacon fat)

the 'great green landscape' deep fried in oil field...

...reveals the real face of Canada's politics and economy today

Revealing the Rhizome

Dense urban area leaves many spaces left undesired and seemingly unpopulated. Many of these zones are in fact full of activity, thus warranting a certain level of architectural intervention in order to render them once again desired.

MIGRATION ENERGY

MAPPING MIGRATION ENERGY:

We are all tied together in interlocking rhythms almost entirely outside awareness. When people interact they synchronize their motions and emotions. To find a pattern I overlaid travel paths, building densities, and most popular places to go to on a hot Saturday to socialize in Ottawa downtown core. I learned that the Market outdoor patios and public civic parks had the most energy. 

SEE. SEEN. Chapter 1

Open publication - Free publishing - More mapping

sketchbooks re-bound

with time, all books are bound to be unbound

but, that being said,

some will be re-bound, and

it's in the confused re-binding of unbound books that 

we discover new stories and a new plateau

Across The City

Open publication - Free publishing - More architecture

What will happen if people start to move randomly across the city?

This is a study of imposing new random pattern on downtown of Montreal, Discovering and mapping out new perspectives of the city.

A Fragmented Narrative

Mappae Mundi of my dream. Everything is connected to everything else.

Canada's immigrant population

Mapping Canada's population and relating it to immigrants over the years.  Note that all three territories have been combined.

Placing above map of Canada in the world. and starting to see where the immigrants are coming from.

2001

2002

2003

Anyone see the rhizome?

Road Design

If we reordered the layers traditionally found on maps (built work on top, roads on ground, topography at bottom)... would we discover a new urban design strategy? Could entire communities have there own transit system hidden below?

"Paths are made by dancing"

Left right left right left
right left right left right left right
left right left right, right?

CITY - Continuous Map

CITY-Growth

Crossing paths of the city inhabitants over time - The transformation of the increasing density expands.

CITY...

CITY-2012

 CITY-Inhabitants

CITY-Passing Time 

CITY-In Motion

Viewer or Viewed?

Our Urban landscape is cluttered with surveillance equipment. We have become so accustomed to it that most don't even notice they are being watched and recorded throughout their day. Would you?

#2 - Reorientations

Open publication - Free publishing - More mapping

Slices Through Space - Welcome!

Dear students,

we look very much forward to meeting you next week, to launch the studio Slices Through Space which we will transact together during this spring!

Magdalena + Gisle

Open publication - Free publishing - More complexity