Design studio 1

Deliverable:

Prototype and updated multiscalar design space.

Task:

Perform an design experiment applying one or different roles of prototyping.

Goals:

• Mapping my 'new self' and 'new workspace'. 👦
• Getting to know my physical surroundings better from a observative perspective.🔍
• Learning more about the iNaturalist platform and connect with its community.

Last summer I exchanged the surroundings from my job in Joure and hometown Rouveen in the Netherlands for a apartment inside the house of a Argentinian lady in La Teixonera in Barcelona. As a way to map the changes that this international/cultural/professional transition included this page illustrates the things I left back in my previous reality and the things I surround myself in my current reality.🔮 I spent my Sundaymorning walking to the edge of the city, close to the starting point from where we walked to the Torre Vigia Montbau 🌄 about two weeks ago. My objective for the day was to hike uphill to Mirador de Cerdanyola and capture and geo-tag as many interesting pictures of plants and/or animals as I could. This data I could later upload on the iNaturalist platform to get feedback and learn more about this system. In total the trip took me a bit more than two hours. My first intention was to do a little roundtrip since my objective would not change on the way back. So as I got near to the Mirador I started looking for alternative paths back but there were none. The only option was to take the same way back and it suprised me to see how I could miss a lot of interesting things (plants, viewpoints, structures) despite trying to be receptive to these signals.
Later I got back to the parking lot next to the building where I started, which turned out to be a prison. Afterwards I uploaded my foundings on the iNaturalist-website as being a experimental prototype. I was suprised to receive quick feedback to the classifications I assigned my pictures to. Since my taxonomical skills are very very limited I only used the automatically generated classifactions which were than reviewed by the community👫. This training of perceptional skills was nice to do and it felt as being a step closer to the First Person Perspective (1PP) I would want to work in.

Output:

An experimental digital prototype on the iNaturalist platform and a initial visualization of my new reality.