You Are Here: Collaborative Map: Toronto, 2005

Assembling hand drawn maps

Map becomes 3 dimensional

Crowd grows as passerby gain interest.

Classification of Space Excercise

"Places to kiss, Irrational Space, shiny..."

Rational Space=Court of Law (or not...)
Materials: pencils, paper, pens, tape

Site:
City Center, Toronto during Flash in the Can

Medium: Walk, Map Making, Participatory Design, Reading of
Gregory Bateson
Collaboration: Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine


Relative urls :
Flash in the Can, Toronto

You Are Here was a 3 hour workshop which culminated in a map of the city center of Tornoto made from over 75 hand-drawn maps taped together. The map covered a 10 block radius of Toronto city center. This map was made entirely of hand-drawn maps gathered from people in the streets by asking for directions from point A to point B, such that one comprehensive map could be built from all the individual small maps. Over 75 maps were gathered within a one hour period. There were four groups of people sent out into 4 quadrants of our defined area. After one hour we gathered in front of the city cathedral to assemble the map. This lured many tourists and passerby to inquire about our project. To our delight many locals joined in to help us with the accuracy of our assembled map. The map was presented on a wall in the conference center. The workshop consisted of a group of 30 people walking from the east side of Toronto to the city center. On this walk we presented participatory design exercises; Classification of Space, Sociograms and the like.

You Are Here was made in connection with a 3-day new media conference in Toronto: Flash in the Can and was presented on a wall in the conference room at the Westin Harbor.


Sculpture
Lunchbox Lab
Photosynthesis Robot
Rainwater Greywater System
Garden Trike
Bikebarrow
Pogostick Shovel
Seed Library
DIY Algal Hydrogen Bioreactor
Homeland Security Blanket
Botanical Gameboy
Sundial Watches
Solar Music Boxes
Board Game
SeeSaw

Public Projects
F.R.U.I.T. Network
Bingo: Field of Thoughts
Offshoots
Lofoten Game of the Future
Fingerprint Maze
Playshop
Neighborhood Acts
Concurrently
Holding Patterns
The Human Knot


   
Farmers
Amy Franceschini
Michael Swaine
Rich Humphrey
Albert Coleman
Sebastian Stjfl
Stijn Schiffeleers
   
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