Hello all,
Well... Our group, formally know as 'Duality', has changed direction with our investigation (perhaps this is a facet of our personalities having a little duality as well!). We were very interested in how people experience and move through a city when they navigate through it for the first time. We recognized that most cities have a face or facade that they design for people to experience when they go there. It's a way of creating a positive image. This is done with landmarks, main pedestrian streets, shopping centres, squares or other tourist attractions. We wanted to contrast this 'ideal' image of a city with the "behind the scenes" route of a city that maps the edge spaces that are not really seen. The tool that we used to discover our own tracking system through the city's more forgotten places was to follow the graffiti trail in Malmö. To do this we spent the day in Malmö on Tuesday. We started from central station and followed our ‘graffiti tracking’ method to wherever it took us, recording and mapping all the way. We are finding it interesting to compare and contrast the 'façade' and 'behind the scenes' perspectives of a place. Although they are essentially opposites, there are surprising similarities in the structures of these two routes. So… so far so good! We'll see where it takes us.
/kate.