atom06:Week 3 (38)

Contents 1 Mapping users activities 1.1 Questions 1.2 Possible usergroups 2 Artist & Technology 3 Qualities of lively spaces

Mapping users activities

1. Map the users
2. Map their current & possible activities
3. Identify
4. How to connect users
5. Find matching activities
6. Match the users by their activities / mix functions
7. Connecting activities form the interaction and program
8. The program (list of activities) is organised / mapped

Questions

1. How does it change by the effect of users?
2. How to map the users? Diagrammatically, with sensors etc.

Possible usergroups

1. Students

• • activity 11
  • activity 2

1. Residents
2. Science center (workers, visitors, ...)
3. Architecture department (tutors, personnel)
4. Botanical garden
5. Duwo

user groups and their activities and needs - table

Artist & Technology

biologist Francesco Varela (The Embodied Mind) 

• Concept: Embodied cognition

economist and nobel laureate Amartya Sen (Identity and Violence)

artist researcher Olafur Eliasson (Projects The Weather Project)

Neurobiologist Semir Zeki (Artistic Creativity and the Human Brain) 

• Concept: Neuroesthetics

FoAM Amsterdam 

is developing a foraging application for Android smartphone called Boskoi. To look in a wider context at ecology and new media, the Institute for Augmented Ecology, has been launched in 2011.

M.A.R.I.N. 

Environmental sensors

Bioelectronics

Mapping

Qualities of lively spaces

According to Christopher alexander there are 15 fundamental qualities of places, that have 'more life'. This picture illustrates the 15 principles.