Tag Archives: Final Project

“The practice of dérive is more than just an urban walkabout. As Jorn proposes, it is a practice connected to the discovery of the qualities of any block of space and time.” (Wark , 44) Just finished reading McKenzie Wark’s book, Fifty Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International. This was my first introduction to [...]

While doing research for my final project for Major Studio, I came across Graphserver, which is an open-source multi-modal trip planner. According to visualcomplexity.com, “Brandon Martin-Anderson has produced a series of interesting maps from several US cities depicting the shortest path tree within its transportation networks.” Here is a sample of Brandon Martin-Anderson’s Graphserver at [...]

Urban Drifts is a research–based, social experiment that calls into question prescribed city boundaries and instead enlists unrecognized physical urban magnets as guides through the city landscape. This project will culminate with a series of photographic works and psychogeographic maps of New York City. Through the use of GPS tracking and traversing landscapes on a [...]

Urban Drifts is a research–based, social experiment that calls into question prescribed city boundaries and instead enlists unrecognized physical urban “magnets” as guides through the city landscape. This project will culminate with a series of photographic works and psychogeographic maps of New York City. Through the use of GPS tracking and traversing landscapes on a [...]