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Our idea is to facilitate redistribution of existing physical and virtual networks connecting various actors as a more coherent whole in real-time on our site and beyond our location.

By arranging common activities as intermediates to facilitate mixing of different user groups that are currently not well connected we plan to create a more coherent whole.

findings (analysis)

• the residents of Delft and the TU are not or barely interacting (creating a division in the unity of the city)

• Currently, the twitter study highlighted the existance of a virtual Network "around" the site: people are trying to connect

• by mapping activities we found similar interests/activities between some of the actors

proposed actions

• use the actor-network theory to help us organize/find the current actors and existing networks (be it people, bats or organizations)

• introduce new actors (intermediators, be it people or objects) to reconfigure and redistribute those relationships in a more closely knit network

• merge the physical and the virtual

• create (virtual and physical) activities that attract residents and students and lets them interact

future results

• this will create a more coherent Delft where people will know more about each other and interact more, creating a more coherent city

Theoretical Exploration

Summary: Actor-Network Theory

The Actor-Network-Theory

• ANT is a sociological theory developed by Bruno Latour

• This network contains not only people, but also objects and organizations, all are on equal levels

• Combines social and technical elements in their influence and cohesion

• is a method / tool for understanding, making sense of the organization of elements

Superstudio

Superstudio consider the possibility to create a network based on energy and information extending to every properly inhabitable area. They think about the possibility to create a technological grid that could be spread all over the world and that became the real channel on which people move. On this grid they create micro-events that works as attractors trough which people could plug in and create a new network. They substantially translate the virtual network in a physical condition, simply eliminated the physical boundaries. This project leads us to reflect on how our site could react in terms of retention or elimination of physical boundaries.

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Intervention

Network reconfiguration

We are redistributing the action of the network by finding activities that work as attractors. The new activities work as intermators creating new connections in the network.

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  1. current situation - disconnected various user groups

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  2. intervention - new actors spark new attraction through activities and bring some networks closer together

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  3. consequences - more coherent local network where people connect in a new way

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  4. intent - if we connect the virtual existing networks to the physical networks: increase in network activity with our site, the heart of the network

Functions as attractors