Finding Direction.

3 décembre 2009 // Filed under Uncategorized

i pride myself on having good direction sense. Somewhere in my head routes i travel by become intuitive, and i often loose myself in thought while navigating to places that are routine to me. In a sense my movement becomes a rehearsed performance, and in another sense im sure this happens to everyone. But how do other people perform and move through the same spaces that i move through. what are their cues, their indications, their landmarks, their waypoints, and their means of marking? 

using a sound recorder and a GPS locative device, i intend, to loose and find my way in a space, where all i have as indicators are other peoples directions.   

for the purpose of the exhibition i would like to tag intersections/interactions (by sound/or drawing) on a map that are referred to as i walk and ask for directions, in an attempt to create a subjective map of the area that i am in. 

as a preliminary test, i took a route i take every day – from college to home, by asking for directions. One of my initial ideas was to ask people to draw me route maps. today i want to drop myself off at a location i am entirely unfamiliar with and listen to how i should get back.

some readings ive done on navigation and location awareness devices.

- http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/headmap-manifesto.PDF

-http://www.annetteweintraub.com/

-http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/

2009-12-03  ::  namrata