Conducting urban observation studies and prototyping urban literacy devices for Madrid
o1 Phase DÉRIVE & GARNER
Set off to urban wandering, explore Madrid and familiarize with the urban landscape. Go locality, go detail, go personal!
Find and designate an individual to focus on their site-specific anecdotes and daily routines. Make observations and protocol behavioral patterns and define how the location is used and how humans navigate through it. Note the tone and manners of communications.
Collect footage and materials.
o2 Phase TRANSLATE & PROTOTYPE
Come back to the Interactivos? Headquarters and ULS Prototyping Lab!
Translate the stories and garnered materials into object ideas that are aimed to facilitate a site-specific awareness and enhance the individual experience.
Go on designing and prototyping urban literacy tools. This could be - but is NEVER limited to – manufactured periscopes, enhanced listening devices, augmented vision glasses, ladders, filters, visual reduction tools, appropriated rear bike mirrors, viewfinders, etc.
Materials:
You may use footage found on location. Besides that we restrict you to a basic grassroots set of materials provided by us in order to guarantee a unified style for the documentation and exhibition.
o3 Phase ASSESS & DOCUMENT
It’s now time for testing the materialized objects in its natural habitat. Go back to its original environment, assess and document the process. Will passers-by slow down and use the objects? Will they get the desired experience and allow them to see what they didn’t see before?
o4 Phase PREPARE FOR CROSS ASSOCIATION
Prepare all the materials and set up a situationist style exhibition to facilitate new interconnections with the various areas, research outcomes and objects.
o5 Phase VEO, VEO!
Do it again! Again!
