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='''Concept strategy'''=
  
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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.
  
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Our idea is to create a '''network''' that connects in '''real-time''' our site with the rest of Delft.
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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'''.</div>
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From the center of this network, like in '''metastasis''', things spread from the '''center''' to '''non-adjacent parts'''; '''contaminating''' all the city.
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Metastasis means "displacement" in Greek, from μετά, meta, "next", and στάσις, stasis, "placement".
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In practise, our project is divided in two main parts. The center, that is a '''main public platform''' that attracts people from different user groups to our site (which is the center between the TU and the city center) where they can '''interact''' and '''communicate'''; and the metastasis, that are '''urban located interactive stations''' that relate back to the center and reverse.
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'''findings''' [[atom06:Analysis| '''(analysis)''']]
  
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* the residents of Delft and the TU are not or barely interacting (creating a division in the unity of the city)
  
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* Currently, the twitter study highlighted the existance of a virtual Network "around" the site: people are trying to connect
  
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* by mapping activities we found similar interests/activities between some of the actors
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'''proposed actions'''
  
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='''Work in Progress'''=
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* use the actor-network theory to help us organize/find the current actors and existing networks (be it people, bats or organizations)
  
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To define the strategy we are doing analysis on different topics: map the activities of users to understand what can stimulate interaction and communication;  investigate the possible system's spatial ability; analyze the flow of people to determine the attractors place in which to place the metastases.
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* introduce '''new actors''' (intermediators, be it people or objects) to reconfigure and redistribute those relationships in a more closely knit network
  
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==='''Analyze spatial ability'''===
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* merge the '''physical and the virtual'''
  
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* create (virtual and physical) '''activities''' that attract residents and students and lets them interact
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'''future results'''
  
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Image:systems' movements merge copia.jpg|'''Systems' Movements'''
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* this will create a more coherent Delft where people will know more about each other and interact more, creating a more coherent city
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Image:spatial ability merge copia.jpg|'''Spatial Ability'''
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='''Theoretical Exploration'''=
  
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==Summary: Actor-Network Theory==
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The [[atom06:References| '''Actor-Network-Theory''']]
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* ANT is a sociological theory developed by Bruno Latour
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* This network contains not only people, but also objects and organizations, all are on equal levels
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* Combines social and technical elements in their influence and cohesion
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* is a method / tool for understanding, making sense of the organization of elements
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==Superstudio==
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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.
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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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File:Superstudio1.jpg|
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File:Superstudio2.jpg|
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File:Superstudio4.jpg|
  
 
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='''Intervention'''=
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== Network reconfiguration ==
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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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<gallery widths="200" heights="150" perrow="6" >
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File:Atom 6 concept 1.jpg|'''1. current situation -  disconnected various user groups'''
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File:Atom 6 concept 2.jpg|'''2. intervention - new actors spark new attraction through activities and bring some networks closer together'''
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File:Atom 6 concept 3.jpg|'''3. consequences - more coherent local network where people connect in a new way'''
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File:Atom 6 concept 4.jpg|'''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'''
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== Functions as attractors ==
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<div style="float:left; border:none; width:400px; margin-right: 10px;" >
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[[Image:Functions.gif|border|300px|layered physical networks with a live interactive virtual global feed]]
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<div style="float:left; border:none; width:325px; margin-right: 10px;" >
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The center, that is a '''physical/virtual main public platform''' that attracts people from different user groups to our site (which is the center between the TU and the city center) where they can '''interact''' and '''communicate'''
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[[Image:Spatial relationship and organization merge copia.jpg|none|250px|caption ]]
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== Connecting to a larger network ==
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[[Image:Concept-diagrams-1.gif|border|300px|connecting the physical and the virtual]]
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The structure works as an interactive interface between the the actors on the physical location and the larger virtual network.
  
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The diagrams relate to relationships and organizations of space according to F.D.K. Ching
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Via internet through a smart phone, computer, or an urban located interactive station that all '''interactively relate''' back and forth with the public platform.
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Before actually deciding on who is going where with what purpose, these diagrams show the possibilities of any interaction.
 
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With this information we can look at the needs and demands of the various actors in our area.
 
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From this we can extrapolate a fitting brief, which we can mold within the possibilities of interaction via the relationships and organizations of the space.
 
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The (Inter)action of systems will be the key of our project.
 
  
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The concept of these diagrams is to form an idea of organizing our users and their uses
 
  
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'''Spatial relationships'''               
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==Structure formation and parametrisation==
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* space within a space
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The structure will get it's form based on parameters of the network investigation
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* interlocking spaces
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* adjacent spaces
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* space linked by a common space
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'''Spatial organizations'''
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# Define the border of the [[atom06:Analysis#Network_visualization_of_the_Delft_area_trough_Twitter| network of actors]]
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* radial organizations
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# Find the social distance between actors
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* clustered organizations
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## For defining this we are using virtual representation of social networks, currently Twitter network
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* centered organizations
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## The distance between actors is calculated based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network social network analysis] methods
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* linear organizations
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* grid organizations
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==='''Map users activities'''===
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Program will be formed by the optimal placement of functions to attract and mix the actors
  
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# Map the users
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# Find the attraction of different functions regarding actor clusters
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# Map their current & possible activities
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# Bring the most distant actors together by attracting them with appropriate functions
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# Identify
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# Functions that have similar attraction parameter reject each others to mix functions
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# How to connect users
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# Find matching activities
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# Match the users by their activities / mix functions
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# Connecting activities form the interaction and program
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# The program (list of activities) is organised / mapped
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In addition we will look into possibilities of the structure to be able to sense the activity level of the site, and ways to react to this.
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# How does it change by the effect of users?
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# How to map the users? Diagrammatically, with sensors etc.
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Possible usergroups
 
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# Students
 
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# Residents
 
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# Science center (workers, visitors, ...)
 
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# Architecture department (tutors, personnel)
 
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# Botanical garden
 
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# Duwo
 
  
  
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[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lWhy8PPggZON914Kzr4Gwocc2Nb0jlsTdz9yp-i85fw/edit?hl=en_US user groups and their activities and needs - table]
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Latest revision as of 08:38, 17 October 2011

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Contents

Concept strategy

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.

  • Superstudio1.jpg
  • Superstudio2.jpg
  • Superstudio4.jpg

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.

  • 1. current situation - disconnected various user groups

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

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

  • 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

layered physical networks with a live interactive virtual global feed

The center, that is a physical/virtual main public platform that attracts people from different user groups to our site (which is the center between the TU and the city center) where they can interact and communicate

Connecting to a larger network

connecting the physical and the virtual

The structure works as an interactive interface between the the actors on the physical location and the larger virtual network.

Via internet through a smart phone, computer, or an urban located interactive station that all interactively relate back and forth with the public platform.


Structure formation and parametrisation

The structure will get it's form based on parameters of the network investigation

  1. Define the border of the network of actors
  2. Find the social distance between actors
    1. For defining this we are using virtual representation of social networks, currently Twitter network
    2. The distance between actors is calculated based on social network analysis methods

Program will be formed by the optimal placement of functions to attract and mix the actors

  1. Find the attraction of different functions regarding actor clusters
  2. Bring the most distant actors together by attracting them with appropriate functions
  3. Functions that have similar attraction parameter reject each others to mix functions

In addition we will look into possibilities of the structure to be able to sense the activity level of the site, and ways to react to this.


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