Mapping the Motion

I found it rather difficult to map my chosen space in a more artistically, creative way than what we are all use to seeing. This may be due to midterms, and for this reason I plan on re-creating a few maps with an interesting twist. It is challenging and yet interesting to think of so many new ways of representing a space that can be seen as bland. (After all, it is just a hallway, right?) But it is not just a hallway! It is a train, or the interior of a train fashioned with rounded objects and surfaces to accommodate the movement and natural physique of the body – not something stiff and awkward. This is the vision I have for my space, and it is filled with relaxing tones with random bursts of color. Motion that is interactive and energetic. How do I represent this as a map? I have a few ideas, now that I have sketched out a brainstorm of four (which is posted in the exercise section). My maps need more color, more life, more fun and energy. Some of them have it, others are still dull. This is a space I want to change people into their natural states – their beautifully human state. I’m sure I sound like an “artsy artist” as they say, but if you read between the lines it really all makes sense. Or, perhaps reading through Daniel Quinn’s If they give you lined paper, write sideways. These books question how we think, why we do things, how things affect us (also see What Things Do by Peter-Paul Verbeek), how we affect ourselves and each other (Self and Others; R.D.Laing – though I have not read this particular one).

I may start pushing my concept art for this project soon, if the maps begin to promote my idea more…correctly.

Carina.

~ by gendront on February 12, 2008.